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. 2020 Jun 29;150(8):2031–2040. doi: 10.1093/jn/nxaa169

TABLE 1.

Sociodemographic and cardiometabolic indicators in Guatemalan adults (n = 123)1

Overall (n = 123) Males (n = 77) Females (n = 46) P
Sociodemographic
 Age at follow-up,5 y 43.0 (40.0, 46.0) 44.0 (40.0, 47.0) 43.0 (40.0, 45.0) 0.422
Anthropometric
 BMI, kg/m2 25.0 (23.3, 27.0) 24.7 (23.1, 26.6) 25.6 (24.3, 27.9) <0.052
Biochemical
Glucose profile
 Fasting blood glucose, mg/dL 94.9 (90.9, 98.8) 96.0 (93.0, 99.6) 93.2 (89.7, 95.8) <0.012
 Postprandial glucose, mg/dL 99.4 (90.9, 112) 94.7 (88.3, 104) 105 (98.9, 118) <0.012
 HbA1c, % 5.6 (5.4, 5.8) 5.6 (5.4, 5.8) 5.6 (5.4, 5.8) 0.333
Plasma lipid concentrations
 Triglycerides, mg/dL 108 (83, 142) 115 (87, 157) 102 (73, 125) 0.062
 Total cholesterol, mg/dL 167 (146, 194) 162 (146, 187) 174 (147, 199) 0.243
 HDL cholesterol, mg/dL 42.7 (36.8, 49.0) 40.6 (35.9, 46.8) 47.0 (40.4, 54.2) <0.014
 Non-HDL cholesterol,6 g/dL 0.13 (0.11, 0.14) 0.12 (0.10, 0.14) 0.13 (0.11, 0.15) 0.923
Clinical
 Systolic blood pressure, mm Hg 115 (108, 121) 117 (110, 122) 110 (102, 119) <0.014
 Diastolic blood pressure, mm Hg 67.5 (63.0, 73.0) 68.0 (64.0, 73.5) 66.5 (61.5, 70.5) 0.023
1

Study participants did not have any of the assessed cardiometabolic diseases, that is, obesity (52), hypertension (53), diabetes (54), or metabolic syndrome (55), including comorbidities (see Supplemental Table 2). Data values are median (IQR). HbA1c, glycated hemoglobin.

2

P values based on Wilcoxon rank-sum tests (for nonnormally distributed continuous variables).

3

P values from t tests (for normally distributed continuous variables) with equal variance (pooled).

4

P values from t tests (for normally distributed continuous variables) with unequal variance (Satterthwaite).

5

At study visit date (of biological sample collection) in 2015–2017 data collection.

6

Non-HDL cholesterol (mg/dL) calculated as the difference between total (mg/dL) and HDL cholesterol (mg/dL) plasma concentrations.