Table 2.

Prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) components in tertiles of T-score (spine) according to sex.

	All (N = 1587)				Males (N = 243)				Females (N = 1344)
T-Score (L1–L4 Spine)	T1	T2	T3	p	T1	T2	T3	p	T1	T2	T3	p
Central Obesity	66.9	79.8	82.7	<0.01	38.3	60.5	71.6	<0.01	72.1	83.4	84.7	<0.01
Hyperglycemia	69.9	73.8	74.0	0.25	86.4	80.2	91.4	0.12	66.9	72.7	70.8	0.16
Low HDL-Cholesterol	63.0	64.6	68.5	0.17	40.7	45.7	42.0	0.80	67.1	68.1	73.3	0.09
Hypertriglyceridemia	40.3	46.2	47.7	0.04	54.3	58.0	64.2	0.43	37.7	44.0	44.6	0.07
Hypertension	29.3	32.5	34.4	0.20	38.3	35.8	39.5	0.88	27.6	31.9	33.5	0.15
Full MetS	56.1	63.3	67.6	<0.01	50.6	60.5	71.6	0.02	57.1	64.4	65.8	0.003

Note: Data presented as frequency (%) for the components of MetS and full MetS. T1, T2 and T3 are the three tertiles of T-score (spine) whose respective values as median (Q1, Q3) are −2.70 (−3.1, −2.4), −1.65 (−1.9, −1.3) and –0.30 (−0.7, 0.4) for all participants; −2.20 (−2.7, −1.7), 0.80 (−1.2, −0.5) and 0.55 (0.1, 1.1) for males; –2.80 (−3.2, −2.5), –1.70 (−2.0, −1.5) and –0.40 (−0.8, 0.2) for females. Chi-squared test was used to check the differences of frequencies in different tertiles of T-score. p < 0.05 was considered significant. HDL, high density lipoprotein.