Table 2.

Metabolic profiles by age in urban and rural women Values are means ± Standard deviation

	< 40 years			40 – 55 years			>55 years
	Urban	Rural	P	Urban	Rural	P	Urban	Rural	P
n	62	12		94	26		70	23
SBP	118 ± 18	111 ± 13	0.194(NS)	133 ± 24	124 ± 13	0.180(NS)	148 ± 34	145 ± 24	0.827(NS)
DBP	78 ± 15	76 ± 8	0.849(NS)	84 ± 13	79 ± 11	0.150(NS)	90 ± 19	85 ± 17	0.332(NS)
RHR (bpm)	79 ± 14	88 ± 12	0.040	79 ± 11	79 ± 10	0.819(NS)	77 ± 13	78 ± 14	0.645(NS)
Blood glucose (mmol/l)	4.91 ± 1.74	4.04 ± 1.40	0.340(NS)	5.09 ± 1.28	5.04 ± 1.66	0.265(NS)	5.72 ± 2.72	6.00 ± 2.56	0.030
n	56	9		81	22		61	18
TC(mmol/l)	4.37 ± 0.87	2.43 ± 0.98	<0.001	4.76 ± 1.00	3.11 ± 0.96	<0.001	4.97 ± 1.19	3.54 ± 0.78	<0.001
HDL-cl (mmol/l)	2.09 ± 1.04	2.56 ± 0.83	0.146(NS)	2.09 ± 0.91	2.25 ± 0.89	0.232(NS)	2.09 ± 1.04	2.56 ± 0.83	0.462(NS)
LDL-cl (mmol/l)	1.70 ± 1.03	1.35 ± 0.06	0.569(NS)	2.12 ± 1.14	1.35 ± 0.15	0.001	2.28 ± 1.38	1.39 ± 0.22	0.012
TG (mmol/l)	1.34 ± 0.33	1.30 ± 0.44	0.055(NS)	1.25 ± 0.48	1.13 ± 0.35	0.363(NS)	1.34 ± 0.33	1.30 ± 0.44	0.061(NS)
LDL/HDL-c Ratio	1.04 ± 1.02	1.01 ± 0.41	0.235	1.45 ± 1.35	0.72 ± 0.37	0.020	2.30 ± 3.95	0.60 ± 0.24	0.012

Values are means ± SD; n, number of subjects