Table 2.
Race/Ethnicity, Education, and Framingham Risk Score and Metabolic Syndrome
| Framingham Risk, n = 278 | Metabolic Syndrome, n = 322 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low, n (%) | Moderate, n (%) | High, n (%) | <3 Components of Metabolic Syndrome, n (%) | ≥3 Components of Metabolic Syndrome, n (%) | |
| Race/ethnicity | |||||
| Non‐Hispanic white | 102 (68) | 41 (27) | 7 (5) | 141 (90) | 15 (10) |
| Hispanic | 47 (55) | 28 (33) | 10 (12) | 64 (56) | 50 (44) |
| Non‐Hispanic black | 13 (46) | 11 (39) | 4 (14) | 22 (73) | 8 (27) |
| Asian | 9 (82) | 1 (9) | 1 (9) | 15 (83) | 3 (17) |
| Other | 4 (100) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 4 (100) | 0 (0) |
| P value | 0.09 | <0.0001 | |||
| Education years | |||||
| ≤8 | 12 (33) | 16 (44) | 8 (22) | 19 (39) | 30 (61) |
| 9–12 | 21 (51) | 15 (37) | 5 (12) | 24 (11) | 22 (45) |
| ≥12 | 139 (70) | 50 (25) | 9 (5) | 195 (89) | 27 (55) |
| P value | <0.0001 | <0.0001 | |||