Table 2.

Association of anthropometric parameters, education and marital status with pre-diabetes between male and female

variables	Male (n=360)					Female (n=428)
	Normal		Pre-diabetes		p	Normal		Pre-diabetes		p
Continuous variables
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Age, year	50.1	13.9	55.6	13.5	0.002	46	11.9	53.7	13.7	<0.001
BMI (kg/m2)	24.8	4	24.9	3.7	0.858	27.2	4.5	28.3	4.2	0.049
Categorical variables
	Number	%	Number	%		Number	%	Number	%
BMI categories					0.156					0.100
Normal	152	52.8	32	45.1		113	31.5	16	23.2
weight
Overweight	108	37.5	35	49.3		163	45.4	29	42
Obese	28	9.7	4	5.6		83	23.1	24	34.8
Marital status					0.920					0.494
Divorced,	13	4.5	3	4.2	51	14.2	12	17.8
widowed or
single
Married	276	95.5	68	95.8		308	85.8	57	82.9
Education					0.160					0.037
Low	113	39.1	36	50.7		143	39.8	34	49.3
Medium	114	39.4	25	35.2		160	44.6	32	46.4
High	62	21.5	10	14.1		56	15.6	3	4.3

SD: Standard Deviation; yr: year.