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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 6.
Published in final edited form as: Integr Obes Diabetes. 2015 May 25;1(3):49–55. doi: 10.15761/iod.1000112

Table 1.

Socio-demographic characteristics of the study participants by gender from BSMMU hospital, Bangladesh (N=390).

Male (n=270) Female (n=120)

Control (n=137) Case (n=133) P valuec Control (n=68) Case (n=52) P valuec

Agea (years) 53.2 ± 8.3 53.0 ± 8.3 0.839d 51.3 ± 8.4 52.6 ± 8.4 0.405d

Age group (years)
30–39 6 (4.4) 5 (3.8) 0.994 5 (7.4) 3 (5.8) 0.701e
40–49 34 (24.8) 34 (25.6) 16 (23.5) 11 (21.2)
50–59 64 (46.7) 62 (46.6) 37 (54.4) 26 (50.0)
60–70 33 (24.1) 32 (24.1) 10 (14.7) 12 (23.1)

Marital status
Never married 0 0 0.017 2 (3.0) 0 0.095e
Currently married 127 (94.1) 130 (97.7) 46 (68.7) 44 (84.6)
Widow 7 (5.2) 3 (2.26) 19 (28.4) 8 (15.4)
Divorced 1 (0.7) 0 0 0

Residence
Urban 74 (54.4) 41 (30.8) <0.001 17 (25.4) 5 (9.6) 0.020
Rural 62 (45.6) 92 (69.2) 47 (70.1) 47 (90.4)

Education
College or university 53 (39.0) 26 (19.5) <0.001 1 (1.5) 2 (3.8) 0.006e
Secondary school 56 (41.1) 32 (24.1) 11 (16.4) 2 (3.8)
Primary school 16 (11.8) 47 (35.3) 33 (49.3) 16 (30.8)
None 11 (8.1) 28 (21.1) 22 (32.8) 32 (61.5)

Household incomea,b
Mean (SD) 4374 ± 2560 4223 ± 1335 0.03f 3203 ± 2459 4289 ± 1387 <0.001f

BSMMU: Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Percentages are in parenthesis next to each count

Missing Values male: Marital Status=2, Residence=1, Education= 1, Household income= 1

Missing Values female: Marital Status=1, Residence=4, Education= 1, Household income= 2

a

Mean ± Standard Deviation

b

Per capita monthly household income in taka

c

Pearson Chi square except where noted

d

Independent t test

e

Fisher’s exact tests

f

Mann Whitney Rank test