Table 1.
Baseline characteristic of the study population by Metabolic syndrome.
| Level | No metabolic syndrome |
Metabolic syndrome | P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (%) | 2217 (50.36) | 2185 (49.64) | ||
| Klotho (%) | 0.0934 | |||
| Q1 | 519 (23.41) | 582 (26.64) | ||
| Q2 | 571 (25.76) | 530 (24.26) | ||
| Q3 | 568 (25.62) | 531 (24.30) | ||
| Q4 | 559 (25.21) | 542 (24.81) | ||
| Sex (%) | <0.0001 | |||
| Female | 1026 (46.28) | 1179 (53.96) | ||
| Male | 1191 (53.72) | 1006 (46.04) | ||
| Poverty-income ratio (%) | <0.0001 | |||
| <1 | 378 (17.05) | 481 (22.01) | ||
| [1, 3) | 935 (42.17) | 983 (44.99) | ||
| ≥3 | 904 (40.78) | 721 (33.00) | ||
| Ethnicity (%) | <0.0001 | |||
| Mexican American | 269 (12.13) | 362 (16.57) | ||
| Non-Hispanic Black | 491 (22.15) | 400 (18.31) | ||
| Non-Hispanic White | 989 (44.61) | 975 (44.62) | ||
| Other Hispanic | 237 (10.69) | 270 (12.36) | ||
| Other Race - Including Multi-Racial | 231 (10.42) | 178 (8.15) | ||
| Education (%) | <0.0001 | |||
| Low high school | 583 (26.30) | 699 (31.99) | ||
| High school | 465 (20.97) | 518 (23.71) | ||
| College or above | 1169 (52.73) | 968 (44.30) | ||
| Smoke (%) | 0.0313 | |||
| Former | 792 (35.72) | 864 (39.54) | ||
| Never | 1090 (49.17) | 1004 (45.95) | ||
| Now | 335 (15.11) | 317 (14.51) | ||
| Calcium (mean (SD)) | 2.357 (0.093) | 2.361 (0.099) | 0.1812 | |
| Phosphorus (mean (SD)) | 1.200 (0.093) | 1.198 (0.186) | 0.7715 |