Table 3.

Metabolic profiles by age in urban and rural men

	<40 years			40 – 55 years			>55 years
	Urban	Rural	P	Urban	Rural	P	Urban	Rural	P
n	25	16		43	13		38	30
SBP	127 ±; 21	121 ±; 13	0.329(NS)	140 ±; 26	144 ±; 28	0.648(NS)	143 ±; 25	152 ±; 35	0.394(NS)
DBP	79 ±; 14	79 ±; 14	0.957(NS)	89 ±; 18	92 ±; 19	0.554(NS)	83 ±; 19	91 ±; 19	0.102(NS)
RHR(bpm)	74 ±; 10	82 ±; 13	0.073(NS)	74 ±; 12	72 ±; 8	0.580(NS)	73 ±; 12	75 ±; 15	0.361(NS)
blood glucose (mmol/l)	5.16 ±; 1.27	4.91 ±; 0.86	0.718(NS)	5.20 ±; 1.84	4.79 ±; 2.20	0.907(NS)	5.08 ±; 0.60	5.77 ±; 3.72	0.887(NS)
n	21	10		37	12		32	27
TC(mmol/l)	4.44 ±; 1.14	3.28 ±; 1.36	0.028	4.67 ±; 0.98	3.73 ±; 0.95	0.012	4.18 ±; 0.96	3.60 ±; 0.81	0.021
HDL-cl (mmol/l)	1.98 ±; 0.88	2.34 ±; 1.19	0.660(NS)	2.12 ±; 0.97	2.55 ±; 1.25	0.609(NS)	1.67 ±; 0.75	2.71 ±; 0.79	<0.001
LDL-cl (mmol/l)	1.92 ±; 1.26	1.34 ±; 0.16	0.530(NS)	2.02 ±; 1.11	1.58 ±; 0.68	0.163(NS)	1.95 ±; 1.14	1.42 ±; 0.42	<0.018
TG (mmol/l)	1.24 ±; 0.42	1.32 ±; 0.74	0.583(NS)	1.17 ±; 0.40	1.33 ±; 0.96	0.329(NS)	1.27 ±; 0.43	1.05 ±; 0.38	0.004
LDL/HDL-c Ratio	1.50 ±; 1.60	0.71 ±; 0.37	0.428(NS)	1.68 ±; 2.81	0.88 ±; 0.87	0.236(NS)	1.68 ±; 1.65	0.61 ±; 0.48	<0.001

Values are means ±; SD; n, number of subjects