Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Glob Heart. 2015 Mar 7;10(4):245–254.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.gheart.2014.10.004

Table 2.

Association of anthropometric indices and physical activity with prevalent heart disease in Golestan Cohort Study.

Men Women

HD
Cases^
No. (%)
N=1264
Controls^
No. (%)
N=19964
Unadjusted OR
(95% CI)
Adjusted OR*
(95% CI)
HD
Cases^
No. (%)
N=1786
Controls^
No. (%)
N=27021
Unadjusted OR
(95% CI)
Adjusted OR*
(95% CI)
BMI
<18.5 (underweight) 62 (4.9) 1195 (95.1) 0.98 (0.75 – 1.29) 0.91 (0.68 – 1.20) 70 (6.1) 1083 (93.9) 1.37 (1.05 – 1.78) 1.36 (1.03 – 1.78)
18.5 to 24.9 (normal) 480 (5.0) 9132 (95.0) Reference Reference 375 (4.5) 7941 (95.5) Reference Reference
25 to 29.9 (overweight) 493 (6.8) 6778 (93.2) 1.38 (1.21 – 1.58) 1.30 (1.13 – 1.49) 606 (6.2) 9095 (93.8) 1.41 (1.24 – 1.61) 1.32 (1.15 – 1.52)
≥30 (obese) 229 (7.4) 2859 (92.6) 1.52 (1.29 – 1.79)
P trend: <0.001
1.37 (1.15 – 1.64)
P trend: <0.001
736 (7.6) 8901 (92.4) 1.75 (1.54 – 1.99)
P trend: <0.001
1.60 (1.40 – 1.84)
P trend: <0.001
Waist Circumference Quintiles (men; women)
  Q1 (<92.0cm; <92.0cm) 191 (4.6) 3928 (95.4) Reference Reference 304 (5.5) 5257 (94.5) Reference Reference
  Q2 (92.0 – 95.9; 92.0 – 96.9cm) 178 (4.8) 3523 (95.2) 1.04 (0.84 – 1.28) 1.03 (0.83 – 1.27) 291 (5.5) 4977 (94.5) 1.01 (0.86 – 1.19) 1.06 (0.89 – 1.26)
  Q3 (96.0 – 99.9; 97.0 – 101.9cm) 245 (6.1) 3793 (93.9) 1.33 (1.09 – 1.61) 1.34 (1.09 – 1.66) 360 (6.0) 5619 (94.0) 1.11 (0.95 – 1.30) 1.22 (1.04 – 1.44)
  Q4 (100.0 – 104.9; 102.0 – 107.9cm) 323 (6.7) 4527 (93.3) 1.47 (1.22 – 1.76) 1.50 (1.23 – 1.83) 375 (6.5) 5365 (93.5) 1.21 (1.03 – 1.41) 1.37 (1.16 – 1.62)
  Q5 (≥105.0cm; ≥108.0cm) 325 (7.2) 4185 (92.8) 1.60 (1.32 – 1.92)
P trend: <0.001
1.59 (1.30 – 1.95)
P trend: <0.001
456 (7.3) 5797 (92.7) 1.36 (1.17 – 1.58)
P trend: <0.001
1.48 (1.25 – 1.74)
P trend: <0.001
Waist to Hip Ratio Quintiles (men and women)
  Q1 (<0.88) 156 (3.7) 4051 (96.3) Reference Reference 203 (3.7) 5350 (96.3) Reference Reference
  Q2 (0.88 – 0.93) 190 (4.7) 3859 (95.3) 1.28 (1.03 – 1.59) 1.20 (0.96 – 1.49) 264 (4.6) 5511 (95.4) 1.26 (1.05 – 1.52) 1.04 (0.86 – 1.27)
  Q3 (0.94 – 0.97) 242 (5.6) 4118 (94.4) 1.53 (1.24 – 1.87) 1.31 (1.06 – 1.62) 337 (6.0) 5268 (94.0) 1.68 (1.41 – 2.01) 1.22 (1.02 – 1.47)
  Q4 (0.98 – 1.02) 309 (7.3) 3910 (92.7) 2.05 (1.68 – 2.50) 1.61 (1.31 – 1.99) 428 (7.3) 5426 (92.7) 2.08 (1.75 – 2.47) 1.33 (1.11 – 1.59)
  Q5 (>1.02) 364 (8.3) 4017 (91.7) 2.35 (1.94 – 2.85)
P trend: <0.001
1.55 (1.26 – 1.90)
P trend: <0.001
554 (9.2) 5456 (90.8) 2.68 (2.27 – 3.16)
P trend: <0.001
1.41 (1.18 – 1.68)
P trend: <0.001
Physical Activity a
Irregular non-intense 695 (9.2) 6840 (90.8) Reference Reference 1503 (6.5) 21609 (93.5) Reference Reference
Regular non-intense 413 (4.6) 8664 (95.4) 0.47 (0.41 – 0.53) 0.59 (0.52 – 0.68) 241 (5.4) 4128 (94.6) 0.82 (0.71 – 0.94) 0.82 (0.70 – 0.96)
Irregular or regular intense 153 (3.3) 4429 (96.7) 0.34 (0.28 – 0.41)
P trend: <0.001
0.49 (0.41 – 0.60)
P trend: <0.001
39 (3.5) 1074 (96.5) 0.52 (0.38 – 0.72)
P trend: <0.001
0.72 (0.52 – 1.01)
P trend: 0.002
^

Numbers may not add up to the total numbers due to missing data in some variables.

*

Adjusted for age, ethnicity, place of residence, education level, economic status, cigarette smoking, physical activity, hypertension, and self-reported diabetes.

a

Adjusted results were additionally adjusted for current BMI.