Table 2.

Distribution (%) of the MS by gender, according to the quintiles of social class in the Tunisian and Canarian populations

		Tunisian (n = 393)			Canarian (n = 6729)
		Men	Women	P	Men	Women	P
ICE1	MS	30.3	62.9	0.007	35.9	39.7	0.138
ICE2	MS	30.4	60.9	0.038	37.7	34.7	0.232
ICE3	MS	45.5	42.3	0.827	32.0	31.7	0.905
ICE4	MS	40.0	37.0	0.826	27.3	19.7	0.001
ICE5	MS	35.3	32.1	0.828	21.9	13.2	<0.001

MS metabolic syndrome, ICE1, ICE2, ICE3, ICE4, ICE5 quintiles of social class