Table 3.
Distribution of participants with regard to waist circumference categories.
| Waist circumference categories [17] | Men |
Women |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rural (n = 163) |
Urban (n = 100) |
p-value | Rural (n = 390) |
Urban (n = 319) |
p-value | |
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |||
| Normal (male: <94 cm; female: <80 cm) | 130 (79.8) | 94 (94.0) | 0.002a | 95 (24.4) | 102 (32.0) | 0.03a |
| At risk (male: 94–101 cm; female: 80–87 cm) | 17 (10.4) | 2 (2.0) | 0.01a | 69 (17.7) | 62 (19.4) | 0.6 |
| High risk (male: ≥102 cm; female: ≥88 cm) | 16 (9.8) | 4 (4.0) | 0.09 | 226 (57.9) | 155 (48.6) | 0.02a |
| Mean (cm) | 78.5 | 76.0 | 92.0 | 87.0 | ||
a
Statistically significant.