Table 3.

Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors by socioeconomic characteristics among women

	Diabetes (%)	SBP (mean±SD)	Treated hypertension (%)	BMI (mean±SD)	Smoking (%)
Age (years)	0.000*	0.000*	0.005*	0.000*	0.000*
35–44	8.0	119.3±14.6	70.7	28.1±5.3	3.1
45–54	14.4	129.0±19.6	83.0	29.0±5.6	3.4
55–64	22.7	138.9±22.6	83.5	28.9±5.5	5.2
65–74	25.6	142.8±22.5	91.4	27.9±5.7	9.0
Area	0.000*	0.014*	0.007*	0.000*	0.011*
Rural	9.7	126.9±20.6	77.6	26.7±5.3	4.3
Urban	16.0	127.9±20.2	85.7	29.4±5.3	3.9
Region	0.000*	0.000*	NS**	0.000*	0.000*
District of Tunis	16.8	128.3±19.4	87.3	29.9±5.3	7.2
North East	10.5	122.9±18.8	86.9	28.2±5.3	3.9
North West	9.9	129.0±20.7	80.7	27.1±5.4	3.8
Centre East	16.8	128.5±19.9	74.6	28.8±5.1	1.2
Centre West	8.2	125.7±22.8	81.1	26.6±5.5	6.1
South East	17.9	132.5±20.2	92.0	29.0±5.8	0.5
South West	14.9	125.4±20.6	89.3	28.2±5.5	3.0
Education	NS**	0.000*	NS**	0.000*	0.000*
Illiterate	14.2	131.6±22.2	82.8	27.7±5.4	4.4
Primary	15.6	124.8±18.2	87.0	29.6±5.5	2.0
Secondary	11.9	122.6±16.8	81.3	29.1±5.0	6.2
High	6.7	119.7±14.0	78.8	27.9±5.1	7.5
Household economic level proxy	0.000*	0.008*	0.056*	0.000*	0.002*
Low	11.4	126.8±20.4	80.4	26.5±5.3	4.5
Moderate	14.5	129.2±20.9	81.3	29.3±5.4	3.4
High	16.0	126.7±19.5	88.4	29.8±5.1	4.3
Professional activity	NS**	0.000*	NS**	0.000*	NS**
Not working/retired	14.3	128.9±20.6	83.7	28.5±5.6	3.5
Employee	12.2	122.8±17.6	74.9	28.3±4.9	6.2
Intermediate	12.2	121.7±19.8	91.5	29.2±5.5	4.3
Senior	13.1	123.5±18.9	95.3	28.4±5.0	6.9
Marital status	0.000*	0.000*	NS**	0.006*	0.000*
Single	15.0	129.2±21.5	52.4	26.7±5.1	12.2
Married	12.9	126.7±20.0	84.0	28.5±5.4	3.0
Divorced/widowed	19.6	132.5±21.5	84.9	28.7±5.6	8.7

*p=0.05; **p>0.05.

BMI, body mass index; SBP, systolic blood pressure.