Table 2.

Frequency of metabolic syndrome components for cases and controls and corresponding odds ratios (OR)

MetS components	Cases n‡(%)	Controls n‡(%)	OR	95% CI
Abdominal obesity	54(54)	33(33)	5.38	3.22–8.98
Hypertension	83(83)	45(45)	4.50	2.29–8.85
Low HDL	48(48)	26(26)	3.63	2.42–5.43
Hypertriglyceridaemia	32(32)	23(23)	3.30	2.33–4.66
Hyperglycaemia	54(54)	14(14)	3.24	2.22–4.72

HDL-High density lipoprotein cholesterol

^‡n-100 for cases and controls