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. 2017 May 15;18:160. doi: 10.1186/s12882-017-0577-7

Table 1.

Basic characteristics of the study participants in China Health and Nutrition Survey (2009), stratified by sex and estimated glomerular filtration rate

Men (n = 3644) Women (n = 4154)
eGFR ≥60 (n = 3411) eGFR <60 (n = 233) p-valuea eGFR ≥60 (n = 3755) eGFR <60 (n = 399) p-valuea
Age (in years), mean [SD] 49.6 14.4 71.5 9.7 < 0.001 49.0 13.7 69.4 10.7 < 0.001
Education, n (%)
  Primary school or less 1130 33.1 127 54.5 < 0.001 1838 49.0 322 80.7 < 0.001
 Junior high school 1327 38.9 53 22.8 1142 30.4 44 11.0
 Senior high school 482 14.1 16 6.9 383 10.2 12 3.0
 Post-secondary education 472 13.8 37 15.9 392 10.4 21 5.3
Household income (yuan), n (%)
 Low (0–6533) 1087 31.9 78 33.5 0.049 1284 34.2 152 38.1 0.280
 Middle (6542–13,859) 1164 34.1 62 26.6 1250 33.3 122 30.6
 High (13,862–378,571) 1160 34.0 93 39.9 1221 32.5 125 31.3
Health-related behaviors
 Alcohol consumption frequency, n (%) 1883 55.2 67 28.8 < 0.001 223 5.9 20 5.0 0.454
 Current Smoking, n (%) 1923 56.4 89 38.2 < 0.001 136 3.6 26 6.5 0.005
 Weekly physical activity (METs), mean [SD] 224.1 216.7 81.0 119.6 < 0.001 229.6 215.9 110.8 137.7 < 0.001
 Energy intake (kcal), mean [SD] 2335.5 600.3 2048.7 577.0 < 0.001 1996.0 545.9 1793.9 518.3 < 0.001
 Protein intake (g), mean [SD] 71.7 22.5 62.5 20.0 < 0.001 61.9 20.3 55.1 19.2 < 0.001
 Sodium intake (g), mean [SD] 4.9 2.6 4.4 2.6 0.009 4.6 2.6 4.2 2.4 0.004
 Potassium intake (g), mean [SD] 1.7 0.6 1.5 0.6 < 0.001 1.6 0.6 1.4 0.5 < 0.001
 Sodium-to-potassium ratio, mean [SD] 3.0 1.9 3.2 2.2 0.266 3.1 2.1 3.3 2.1 0.122
Cardiometabolic risk factors
 BMI, n (%)
  < 24.0 2028 59.5 147 63.1 0.547 2254 60.0 238 59.7 0.245
 24.0–27.99 1087 31.9 68 29.2 1108 29.5 109 27.3
  ≥ 28.0 296 8.7 18 7.7 393 10.5 52 13.0
 Hypertension, n (%) 1078 31.6 150 64.4 < 0.001 971 25.9 225 56.4 < 0.001
 Diabetes mellitus, n (%) 392 11.5 49 21.0 < 0.001 324 8.6 103 25.8 < 0.001
 High LDL, n (%) 938 27.5 77 33.1 0.068 1164 31.0 209 52.4 < 0.001
Urbanization index, mean [SD] 66.3 19.4 73.6 19.7 < 0.001 66.7 19.4 72.0 19.2 < 0.001
eGFR, mean [SD] 83.8 18.6 50.7 9.9 - 84.5 13.4 54.1 9.3 -

aCharacteristics of the participants were compared using t-test for continuous variables and χ2 test for categorical variables