Table 5.
Odds ratios of having MetS at different PA levels (According to IDF definition).
| Parameters | MetS | Total | P | OR (95%CI) |
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| Presence | Absence | No | % | ||||
| Insufficiently active (≤ 600 MET/wk) | Yes | 446 (93.7%) | 30 (6.3%) | 476 | 100 | .048 (.03–.072) | |
| No | 302 (41.7%) | 422 (58.3%) | 724 | 100 | |||
| Sufficiently active (601 to 1500 MET/wk) | Yes | 204 (66.4%) | 103 (33.6%) | 307 | 100 | .084 | .787 (.59–1.03) |
| No | 544 (60.9%) | 349 (39.1%) | 893 | 100 | |||
| Very active (≥ 1500 MET/wk) | Yes | 98 (23.5%) | 319 (76.5%) | 417 | 100 | ||
| No | 650 (83.0%) | 133 (17.0%) | 783 | 100 | .001 | 15.9 (11.8–21.3) | |
MET/wk: metabolic equivalents per week
The presence of MetS at different PA levels was calculated, using odds ratio and confidence interval of each risk factor. P value less than 0.05 was considered as statistically significant.