Table 2.

Demographic and serum biochemical characteristics of the study population.

	Mean for study population N=601	High blood pressure N=172		Diabetes N=111		Obesity (BMI≥30 kg/m2) N=277
	(min-max)	β±SE	PR>|t|	β±SE	PR>|t|	β±SE	PR>|t|
Age (years)	43.9 (18.0–84.0)	10.1±1.2	<0.0001	9.5±1.5	<0.0001	0.0±1.17	0.9672
BMI (kg/m2)	30.3 (14.6–59.8)	2.9±0.6	<0.0001	3.8±0.7	<0.0001	9.5±0.4	<0.0001
Serum glucose (mg/dL)	107.2 (54.0- 480.0)	25.5±4.2	<0.0001	84.6±3.5	<0.0001	19.6±3.6	<0.0001
Serum cholesterol (mg/dL)	194.7 (101.0- 410.0)	4.6±3.5	0.1914	−3.8±4.0	0.3498	1.7±3.0	0.5682
Serum triglycerides (mg/dL)	152.1 (30.0- 746.0)	24.7±8.7	0.0045	43.9±9.8	<0.0001	23.2±7.4	0.0019
Serum total lipids (mg/dL)	594.7 (270.0- 1378.3)	35.2±13.9	0.0115	35.3±15.9	0.0264	27.1±11.9	0.0235
Total PCBs (ppb wet weight)	5.26 (1.56- 49.09)	0.54±0.30	0.0761	1.14±0.35	0.0010	0.41±0.26	0.1156
Mono-/dichloro	0.27 (0.24–1.36)	0.00±0.00	0.6854	0.01±0.01	0.5062	−0.01±0.01	0.1964
Tri-/tetrachloro	0.99 (0.50–6.58)	0.12±0.05	0.0104	0.20±0.05	0.0001	0.11±0.04	0.0066
Penta-/hexachloro	2.62 (0.54- 26.62)	0.28±0.17	0.0907	0.62±0.19	0.0011	0.31±0.14	0.0308
Hepta-/octa- /nona-/decachloro	1.49 (0.22- 15.63)	0.13±0.11	0.2409	0.31±0.13	0.0175	0.00±0.10	0.9971
Non-/monoortho	1.34 (0.48- 14.71)	0.18±0.09	0.0440	0.37±0.10	0.0003	0.22±0.08	0.0049
Dioxin-like	0.58 (0.10–8.59)	0.09±0.05	0.0709	0.19±0.06	0.0012	0.14±0.04	0.0021
Non-dioxin-like non-/monoortho	0.80 (0.40–6.34)	0.09±0.04	0.0293	0.19±0.05	0.0001	0.09±0.04	0.0156
Diortho	2.92 (0.58- 25.26)	0.26±0.17	0.1306	0.59±0.19	0.0026	0.16±0.15	0.2849
Tri-/tetraortho	1.06 (0.40–9.07)	0.10±0.06	0.1141	0.18±0.07	0.0128	0.04±0.05	0.4920
Total pesticides (wet weight)	3.37 (0.20- 22.79)	0.57±0.25	0.0245	1.03±0.29	0.0004	0.28±0.22	0.2017
HCB	0.08 (0.01–0.33)	0.13±0.00	0.0001	0.02±0.00	<0.0001	0.01±0.00	0.0001
DDE	3.21 (0.04- 22.51)	0.57±0.25	0.0232	1.00±0.28	0.0005	0.27±0.21	0.2045
Mirex	0.12 (0.01–1.67)	−0.01±0.01	0.4373	0.01±0.01	0.3528	−0.01±0.01	0.6237
Gender (women/men)	377/224	96/76		70/41		167/110