Table 1 -.
Characteristics of study subjects.
| Total (n = 480) | Men (n = 251, 52.3%) | Women (n = 229, 47.7%) | ||||
| Age (years) | 51.39 ± 15.08 | 51.49 ± 16.28 | 51.28 ± 13.67 | |||
| BMI (kg/m2) | 23.93 ± 3.38 | 24.73 ± 3.41 | 23.05 ± 3.14 | |||
| Obesity | 77 (16.4) | 53 (21.12) | 24 (10.48) | |||
| Health behavior | ||||||
| Regular exercise | 306 (63.75) | 165 (65.74) | 141 (61.57) | |||
| Smoking | 84 (17.5) | 79(31.47) | 5(2.18) | |||
| Drinking | 93 (19.38) | 76 (30.28) | 17 (7.42) | |||
| Betel nut chewing | 13 (2.71) | 13 (5.18) | 0 (0) | |||
| Disease History | ||||||
| Hypertension | 121 (25.21) | 77 (30.68) | 44 (19.21) | |||
| Hyperglycemia | 50 (10.44) | 33 (13.15) | 17 (7.46) | |||
| Hyperlipidemia | 162 (33.89) | 87 (34.8) | 75 (32.89) | |||
| CVA | 6 (1.25) | 4 (1.59) | 2(0.87) | |||
| Cancer | 18 (3.76) | 6 (2.39) | 12 (5.26) | |||
| IMT measurements | ||||||
| IMT-CCA- distance (mm) | 0.86 ± 0.29 | 0.91 ± 0.34 | 0.8 ± 0.22 | |||
| IMT-Bulb- proximal (mm) | 1.25 ± 0.70 | 1.31 ± 0.73 | 1.18 ± 0.66 | |||
| IMT-ICA- proximal (mm) | 0.86 ± 0.46 | 0.93 ± 0.51 | 0.79 ± 0.37 |
Data were presented as mean ± SD for continuous variables or n (%) for categorical variables. BMI: body mass index; CVA: cerebral vascular accident.