Table 1.
Baseline and follow-up characteristics.
| Variables | Harmonized Criteria | TyG-Index | Total (n = 1182) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Healthy (n = 835) (0 MetS Component) |
Unhealthy (n = 347) (1–2 MetS Component) |
p-Value | Healthy (n = 887) (TyG-i ≤ 8.41) |
Unhealthy (n = 295) (TyG-i > 8.41) |
p-Value | |||||||
| % | % | % | % | % | ||||||||
| Baseline | ||||||||||||
| Male | 39.8 | 39.2 | 0.85 | 37.2 | 46.8 | 0.004 | 39.6 | |||||
| Smoking (yes) | 15.9 | 19.0 | 0.19 | 15.2 | 21.7 | 0.01 | 16.8 | |||||
| Alcohol (no) | 81.9 | 77.2 | 0.14 | 81.6 | 77.3 | 0.102 | 80.5 | |||||
| Vegetable & Fruit (daily) | 86.2 | 82.4 | 0.09 | 84.8 | 86.1 | 0.581 | 85.1 | |||||
| Fatty food (low) | 56.9 | 56.9 | 1.00 | 54.7 | 51.5 | 0.347 | 53.9 | |||||
| Exercise (routine) | 78.5 | 79.5 | 0.71 | 78.7 | 79.3 | 0.819 | 78.9 | |||||
| PDH (yes) | 44.1 | 53.6 | 0.003 | 44.4 | 54.2 | 0.003 | 53.1 | |||||
| SDH (yes) | 9.0 | 12.4 | 0.075 | 8.5 | 14.6 | 0.002 | 10.0 | |||||
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | |||
| Age | 30.1 | 8.4 | 30.8 | 8.8 | 0.19 | 29.5 | 8.5 | 32.8 | 8.0 | <0.001 | 30.3 | 8.5 |
| BMI | 20.7 | 1.2 | 21.0 | 1.2 | <0.001 | 20.6 | 1.2 | 21.2 | 1.2 | <0.001 | 20.8 | 1.2 |
| TG a | 76.0 | 34.0 | 95.0 | 32.0 | <0.001 | 71.0 | 27.0 | 130.0 | 42.0 | <0.001 | 90.0 | 46.1 |
| SBP | 103.9 | 9.7 | 107.6 | 13.7 | <0.001 | 104.0 | 10.9 | 108.0 | 11.4 | <0.001 | 104.9 | 11.1 |
| DBP | 67.9 | 7.7 | 72.1 | 10.2 | <0.001 | 68.4 | 8.5 | 71.5 | 8.7 | <0.001 | 69.1 | 8.7 |
| WC | 71.1 | 6.1 | 73.7 | 7.5 | <0.001 | 71.0 | 6.3 | 74.4 | 7.1 | <0.001 | 71.8 | 6.6 |
| HDL | 60.4 | 11.0 | 47.6 | 12.1 | <0.001 | 57.5 | 12.2 | 54.2 | 14.2 | <0.001 | 56.6 | 12.7 |
| FPG | 84.1 | 6.6 | 88.2 | 10.8 | <0.001 | 84.4 | 7.6 | 88.2 | 9.4 | <0.001 | 85.3 | 8.2 |
| Follow-up | ||||||||||||
| BMI | 21.8 | 2.4 | 22.3 | 2.4 | 0.001 | 21.7 | 2.4 | 22.5 | 2.4 | <0.001 | 21.9 | 2.4 |
| TG a | 77.0 | 42.0 | 90.0 | 70.0 | <0.001 | 72.0 | 37.0 | 110.0 | 69.0 | <0.001 | 94.2 | 55.2 |
| SBP | 109.9 | 11.5 | 113.6 | 15.0 | <0.001 | 110.0 | 12.2 | 114.0 | 13.6 | <0.001 | 110.8 | 12.7 |
| DBP | 70.4 | 8.5 | 73.7 | 11.1 | <0.001 | 70.5 | 9.0 | 73.9 | 10.2 | <0.001 | 71.2 | 9.4 |
| WC | 74.6 | 7.3 | 76.3 | 7.9 | <0.001 | 74.3 | 7.2 | 77.5 | 7.9 | <0.001 | 75.1 | 7.5 |
| HDL | 55.8 | 10.7 | 50.3 | 9.5 | <0.001 | 55.3 | 10.8 | 51.0 | 9.9 | <0.001 | 54.3 | 10.8 |
| FPG | 82.4 | 7.5 | 85.2 | 10.1 | <0.001 | 82.2 | 7.4 | 86.3 | 10.4 | <0.001 | 83.1 | 8.4 |
PDH, parent disease history; SDH, sibling disease history; TG, triglyceride; TyG-index, TG–glucose index; SBP, systolic blood pressure; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; WC, waist circumference; HDL, high-density lipoprotein; FPG, fasting plasma glucose; SD, standard deviation. a Median and interquartile ranges (Wilcoxon rank-sum test).