Table 1. Sex- and age-specific means of blood lipids and body mass index, and prevalence of dyslipidemia and overweight/obesity, regular alcohol consumption, tobacco use, and betel nut use in Palau, 2011–2013.

Age group, years	Men
	Total	25–34	35–44	45–54	55–64	P for trend
Number of subjects	1,046	193	295	318	240
Body mass index, kg/m2 (SD)	29.3 (6.1)	28.4 (6.6)	29.5 (6.3)	29.6 (5.9)	29.6 (5.8)	0.17
Overweight and/or obesity, %	75	65	75	77	82	<0.001
Obesity, %	40	33	42	42	43	0.13
Triglycerides, mg/dL (SD)	182 (110)	163 (98)	188 (119)	177 (100)	193 (116)	0.04
Hypertriglyceridemia, %	48	41	47	51	52	0.18
Total cholesterol, mg/dL (SD)	178 (25)	173 (22)	177 (25)	178 (26)	184 (27)	0.003
Hypercholesterolemia, %	18	13	17	18	24	0.12
Alcohol consumption >8 days last month, %	8	8	11	7	8	0.49
Current betel nut chewing with tobacco, %	43	45	50	42	36	0.01
Tobacco use only, %	13	17	14	11	12	0.23
Betel nut use only, %	8	3	5	10	14	<0.001
Eating out ≥1 times per week, %	58	68	62	57	45	<0.001
Eating fruit ≥3 times per week, %	38	38	37	39	40	0.95
Eating vegetable ≥3 times per week, %	71	75	75	68	65	0.04
Age group, years	Women
	Total	25–34	35–44	45–54	55–64	P for trend
Number of subjects	1,138	188	312	379	259
Body mass index, kg/m2 (SD)	29.9 (6.6)	28.7 (7.5)	30.0 (7.1)	30.2 (6.1)	30.2 (5.9)	0.06
Overweight and/or obesity, %	76	63	74	80	83	<0.001
Obesity, %	46	39	46	47	47	0.29
Triglycerides, mg/dL (SD)	166 (99)	149 (86)	154 (98)	177 (105)	176 (98)	0.002
Hypertriglyceridemia, %	41	34	34	45	49	0.001
Total cholesterol, mg/dL (SD)	183 (30)	173 (23)	174 (24)	187 (31)	192 (33)	<0.001
Hypercholesterolemia, %	23	14	11	27	37	<0.001
Alcohol consumption >8 days last month, %	3	6	2	3	2	0.02
Current betel nut chewing with tobacco, %	54	58	57	53	47	0.04
Tobacco use only, %	3	5	4	3	2	0.38
Betel nut use only, %	6	2	4	8	11	<0.001
Eating out ≥1 times per week, %	57	66	61	54	48	<0.001
Eating fruit ≥3 times per week, %	49	40	46	53	54	0.003
Eating vegetable ≥3 times per week, %	81	81	80	83	79	0.70

SD, standard deviation.