Table 2.

Prevalence of metabolic syndrome components among adult HIV-infected patients, Riruta Health Centre, 2016

Metabolic syndrome components	CombinedNo. (%)	FemaleNo. (%)	MaleNo. (%)	p-value
N	360	241	119
Metabolic syndrome	69 (19.2)	50 (20.7)	19 (16.0)	0.280
High waist circumference	184 (51.1)	141 (58.5)	43 (36.1)	< 0.001
Low HDL – Cholesterol	117 (32.5)	88 (36.5)	29 (24.4)	0.021
Systolic Blood pressure ≥ 130mmHg	117 (32.5)	71 (29.5)	46 (38.7)	0.080
Glycaemia ≥ 5.6 mmol/L	77 (21.4)	50 (20.7)	27 (22.7)	0.675
Triglycerides ≥ 1.7 mmol/L	51 (14.2)	31 (12.9)	20 (16.8)	0.313

Waist circumference cut off ≥ 94 cm for men or ≥ 80 cm for women

Low HDL – Cholesterol was defined as < 1.03 for men or < 1.29mmol/L for women