Table 4.
Characteristics of the analytical sample by MetSa
| Outcome | MetS |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| No (n = 2020) | Yes (n = 543) | ||
| Sociodemographic | |||
| Age at baseline (yr) | 45.4 (45.3, 45.6) | 45.8 (45.6, 46.0) | 0.005 |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 22.8 (22.6, 23.0) | 26.2 (25.8, 26.6) | <0.001 |
| Ethnicity (%) | |||
| White | 54.5 (478) | 47.2 (321) | |
| Black | 14.6 (128) | 29.3 (199) | |
| Chinese | 10.9 (96) | 6.8 (46) | |
| Hispanic | 5.2 (46) | 7.8 (53) | |
| Japanese | 14.7 (129) | 9.0 (61) | |
| Education beyond high school (%) | 81.2 (708) | 75.8 (510) | <0.001 |
| Physical activity score | 8.1 (7.9, 8.2) | 7.4 (7.3, 7.5) | <0.001 |
| Very hard to paying for basics (%) | 5.8 (51) | 9.2 (62) | <0.001 |
| Current smoking (%) | 10.9 (95) | 17.2 (116) | <0.001 |
| CES-D indicating depression (%) | 18.9 (166) | 23.2 (158) | <0.001 |
| Difficulty sleeping past 2 wk (%) | 38.9 (341) | 44.1 (298) | 0.073 |
| Reproductive | 0.002 | ||
| Premenopausal status (%) | 58.0 (498) | 54.4 (361) | <0.001 |
| SHBG (nm/liter) | 47.5 (45.8, 49.3) | 40.9 (39.2, 42.7) | <0.001 |
| DHEAS (μg/dl) | 121.9 (117.2, 126.7) | 106.5 (100.8, 112.6) | <0.001 |
| Estradiol (pg/ml) | 62.1 (59.0, 65.4) | 53.9 (50.9, 57.1) | 0.559 |
| TSH (μIU/ml) | 1.9 (1.8, 1.9) | 1.8 (1.7, 1.9) | <0.001 |
| T to DHEAS ratio | 325.3 (312.6, 338.5) | 368.6 (349.6, 388.7) | <0.001 |
| FAI | 2.9 (2.8, 3.0) | 3.3 (3.1, 3.5) | <0.001 |
| T (ng/dl) | 39.6 (38.4, 41.0) | 39.3 (37.7, 40.9) | <0.001 |
CES-D, Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale.
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Values in table geometric mean (95% CI) for continuous variables or percent (n) for categorical variables.