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Table 6.

Logistic regression analyses for possible effects of MS status of spouses

Criteria	Dependent variable	Independent variables		Odds ratio	95 % confidence interval
Criteria	Dependent variable	Age	MS status	Odds ratio	95 % confidence interval
JMHLW	MS of husbands^a	Age of husbands	MS of wives^b	1.22	0.75 to 1.98
Ibid.	MS risk of husbands^c	Age of husbands	MS risk of wives^b	1.23	0.68 to 2.24
Ibid.	MS of wives^a	Age of wives	MS of husbands^b	1.26	0.84 to 1.91
Ibid.	MS risk of wives^c	Age of wives	MS risk of husbands^b	1.10	0.51 to 2.35
NCEP	MS of husbands^a	Age of husbands	MS of wives^b	1.57	0.56 to 4.43
Ibid.	MS of wives^a	Age of wives	MS of husbands^b	1.62	0.57 to 4.58
JIS	MS of husbands^a	Age of husbands	MS of wives^b	1.54	0.62 to 3.80
Ibid.	MS of wives^a	Age of wives	MS of husbands^b	1.52	0.61 to 3.76

p values were > 0.1 in all cases

JMHLW for reference [6], NCEP for reference [2] and JIS for reference [17]

MS, metabolic syndrome group; MSRES, MS reserve group; Non-MS, non-metabolic syndrome group

^aYes for the MS group, and no for the MSRES and NonMS groups

^bMS, MSRES and NonMS cases are scored as 1, 2 and 3

^cYes for the MS and MSRES groups, and no for the NonMS group