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. 2025 Aug 25;23:50. doi: 10.1186/s12963-025-00414-9

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics by social isolation status stratified by metabolic syndrome status in the UK biobank and NHANES populations

UK biobank
Population with Mets Population without Mets
Characteristic

Overall

N = 75,190

Not isolate

N = 63,512

Social isolated

N = 11,678

p Characteristic

Overall

N = 229,388

Not isolate

N = 198,877

Social isolated

N = 3 0,511

p
Age 58.26 (7.56) 58.41 (7.55) 57.42 (7.57) < 0.001 Age 55.00 (8.11) 55.06 (8.14) 54.60 (7.87) < 0.001
BMI (kg/m 2 ) 30.69 (4.76) 30.62 (4.69) 31.08 (5.10) < 0.001 BMI (kg/m 2 ) 25.85 (3.74) 25.86 (3.69) 25.77 (4.01) < 0.001
Sex < 0.001 Sex < 0.001
Female 32,176(42.79) 27,376(43.10) 4800 (41.10) Female 123,159 (53.69) 108,421 (54.52) 14,738 (48.30)
Male 43,014(57.21) 36,136(56.90) 6878 (58.90) Male 106,229 (46.31) 90,456 (45.48) 15,773 (51.70)
Race < 0.001 Race 0.06
White 71,357(94.90) 60,430(95.15) 10,927(93.57) White 220,321 (96.05) 191,523 (96.30) 28,798 (94.39)
Non-White 3833 (5.10) 3082 (4.85) 751 (6.43) Non-white 9067 (3.95) 7354 (3.70) 1713 (5.61)
Education levels < 0.001 Education levels < 0.001
High-quality 13,398(17.82) 11,072(17.43) 2326(19.92) High-quality 23,578 (10.28) 19,938 (10.03) 3640 (11.93)
Medium-quality 39,652(52.74) 33,794(53.21) 5858(50.16) Medium-quality 112,046 (48.85) 98,213 (49.38) 13,833 (45.34)
Low-quality 22,140(29.45) 18,646(29.36) 3494(29.92) Low-quality 93,764 (40.88) 80,726 (40.59) 13,038 (42.73)
Income levels < 0.001 Income levels < 0.001
<£18,000 20,255(26.94) 15,823(24.91) 4432(37.95) <£18,000 39,295 (17.13) 31,112 (15.64) 8183 (26.82)
£18,000–£51,999 39,369(52.36) 34,101(53.69) 5268(45.11) £18,000–£51,999 118,124 (51.50) 103,476 (52.03) 14,648 (48.01)
≥£52,000 15,566(20.70) 13,588(21.39) 1978(16.94) ≥£52,000 71,969 (31.37) 64,289 (32.33) 7680 (25.17)
No Smoking 44,112(58.67) 37,856(59.60) 6256(53.57) < 0.001 No Smoking 160,618 (70.02) 140,736 (70.77) 19,882 (65.16) < 0.001
Healthy drinking 40,221(53.49) 32,758(51.58) 7463(63.91) < 0.001 Healthy drinking 102,862 (44.84) 86,074 (43.28) 16,788 (55.02) < 0.001
High quality diet 17,520(23.30) 14,814(23.32) 2706(23.17) 0.719 High quality diet 66,845 (29.14) 58,017 (29.17) 8828 (28.93) 0.39
Physical active 56,312 (74.89) 48,876 (76.96) 7436 (63.68) < 0.001 Physical active 190,152 (82.90) 168,018 (84.48) 22,134 (72.54) < 0.001
Comorbidity 38,936 (51.78) 32,783 (51.62) 6153 (52.69) 0.033 Comorbidity 47,281 (20.61) 40,926 (20.58) 6355 (20.83) 0.315
Family history 38,975 (51.84) 33,047 (52.03) 5928 (50.76) 0.012 Family history 77,696 (33.87) 67,401 (33.89) 10,295 (33.74) 0.609
All-cause mortality 6817 (9.07) 5475 (8.62) 1342(11.49) < 0.001 All-cause mortality 11,026 (4.81) 9068 (4.56) 1958 (6.42) < 0.001
CVDM 1114 (1.48) 877 (1.38) 237 (2.03) < 0.001 CVDM 1180 (0.51) 939 (0.47) 241 (0.79) < 0.001
CAM 3174 (4.22) 2607 (4.10) 567 (4.86) < 0.001 CAM 5987 (2.61) 5049 (2.54) 938 (3.07) < 0.001
OTM 2529 (3.36) 1991 (3.13) 538 (4.61) < 0.001 OTM 3859 (1.68) 3080 (1.55) 779 (2.55) < 0.001
Premature death < 70 1382(1.98) 1055(1.79) 327 (3.07) < 0.001 Premature death < 70 5529 (2.47) 4477 (2.30) 1052 (3.55) < 0.001
NHANES
Characteristic

Overall

N = 5758

Not isolate

N = 4553

Social isolated

N = 1205

p Characteristic

Overall

N = 7448

Not isolate

N = 5868

Social isolated

N = 1580

p
Age 64.08(10.74) 64.25(10.51) 63.07(12.00) < 0.001 Age 61.97(11.91) 62.52(11.54) 58.50(13.51) < 0.001
BMI (kg/m 2 ) 32.59(6.23) 32.42(6.06) 33.59(7.06) < 0.001 BMI (kg/m 2 ) 25.96(5.00) 25.99(4.86) 25.77(5.65) 0.024
Sex < 0.001 Sex 0.013
Female 2356(42.20) 1991(44.50) 365(28.60) Female 4107(50.40) 3286(51.20) 821(45.50)
Male 3402(57.80) 2562(55.50) 840(71.40) Male 3341(49.60) 2582(48.80) 759(54.50)
Race 0.06 Race 0.033
Non-Hispanic White 2903(76.90) 2235(22.70) 620(25.90) Non-hispanic white 3842(78.40) 2817(21.10) 789(24.70)
Others 2855(23.10) 2318(77.30) 585(74.10) Others 3606(21.60) 3051(78.90) 791(75.30)
Education levels < 0.001 Education levels < 0.001
Below high school 1859(20.60) 1383(19.40) 476(27.20) Below high school 2070(16.90) 1543(15.80) 527(23.90)
High school and equal 1950(31.00) 1482(30.10) 468(36.50) High school and equal 2506(29.30) 1848(27.80) 658(38.70)
Above high school 1949(48.40) 1688(50.40) 261(36.3) Above high school 2872(53.80) 2477(56.40) 395(37.40)
Poverty income ratio < 0.001 Poverty income ratio < 0.001
0–1.0 746(12.30) 558(10.57) 188(22.50) 0–1.0 624(9.20) 482(8.20) 142(15.60)
1.1-3.0 1551(34.50) 1340(35.20) 211(30.90) 1.1-3.0 1366(25.20) 1237(26.30) 129(18.20)
> 3.0 3461(53.20) 806(54.30) 806(46.60) > 3.0 5458(65.60) 1309(65.50) 1309(66.20)
No Smoking 2725(44.80) 2182(45.40) 543(41.10) 0.04 No Smoking 3269(44.60) 2711(46.20) 558(34.00) < 0.001
Healthy drinking 5038(84.60) 3967(84.50) 1071(85.20) 0.66 Healthy drinking 6566(84.80) 5213(85.70) 1353(78.60) < 0.001
High quality diet 2986(51.20) 2399(52.40) 587(44.10) 0.001 High quality diet 4061(55.00) 3318(56.30) 743(6.80) < 0.001
Physical active 935(13.40) 742(13.70) 193(12.16) 0.87 Physical active 1310(15.40) 998(15.00) 312(17.50) 0.18
Comorbidity 2166(41.60) 1666(40.70) 500(44.10) 0.60 Comorbidity 2182(32.90) 1726(33.00) 456(31.70) 0.52
Family history 1108(23.70) 865(23.40) 243(25.70) 0.57 Family history 1106(19.90) 880(19.60) 880(19.60) 0.28
All-cause mortality 2453(26.20) 1758(23.40) 695(42.90) < 0.001 All-cause mortality 3201(25.80) 2276(22.50) 925(46.20) < 0.001
CVDM 941(9.24) 679(8.31) 262(14.70) 0.04 CVDM 1152(8.13) 803(7.07) 349(14.80) < 0.001
CAM 526(6.15) 399(5.70) 127(8.81) 0.66 CAM 738(6.31) 526(5.54) 212(11.15) < 0.001
OTM 986(10.85) 680(9.39) 306(19.40) 0.001 OTM 1311(11.30) 947(9.94) 364(20.20) < 0.001
Premature death < 70 1329(13.90) 934(12.20) 395(24.10) < 0.001 Premature death < 70 1658(14.10) 1141(11.70) 517(28.70) < 0.001

BMI: Body Mass Index; CAM: Cancer Mortality; CVDM: Cardiovascular Disease Mortality; Mets: Metabolic Syndrome; NHANES: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; OTM: Other-cause Mortality

*For continuous variables, we represent them as mean (standard deviation), while categorical variables are expressed as counts (percentages)

P-value assessment: Continuous variables are compared using the Kruskal-Wallis rank sum test, and categorical variables are assessed using the Chi-squared test. Additionally, bold text is used to highlight variable names, subgroup headers, and population strata, and carries no statistical implication