Table 1.
Prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors according to Waist Circumference.
| Risk Factors | Group I |
Group II |
Group III |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WC in M < 80 or F < 70 cm | WC in M80-89 cm or F70-79 cm | WC in M ≥ 90or F ≥ 80 cm | |||||||
| Gender wise prevalence | Male (n = 156) | Female (n = 97) | Total (n = 253) | Male (n = 187) | Female (n = 162) | Total (n = 349) | Male (n = 247) | Female (n = 329) | Total (n = 576) |
| Impaired fasting glucose | 13(8.3) | 7(7.2) | 20(7.9) | 36(19.3)∗ | 20(12.3) | 56(16.0)∗ | 69(27.9)†‡ | 77(23.4)†‡ | 146(25.3)†‡ |
| Impaired glucose tolerance | 8(5.1) | 6(6.2) | 14(5.5) | 28(15.0)∗ | 12(7.4) | 40(11.5)∗ | 68(27.5)†‡ | 70(21.3)†‡ | 138(24.0)†‡ |
| Diabetes | 11(7.1) | 2(2.1) | 13(5.1) | 27(14.4)∗ | 7(4.3) | 34(9.7)∗ | 67(27.1)†‡ | 71(21.6)†‡ | 138(24.0)†‡ |
| Hypertension | 37(23.7) | 13(13.4) | 50(19.8) | 52(27.8) | 39(24.1)∗ | 91(26.1) | 138(55.9) †‡ | 152(46.2)†‡ | 290(50.3)†‡ |
| Metabolic Syndrome | 12(7.7) | 9(9.3) | 21(8.3) | 25(13.4) | 36(22.2)∗ | 61(17.5)∗ | 165(66.8) †‡ | 262(79.6)†‡ | 427(74.1)†‡ |
| Hypercholesterolaemia | 20 (12.8) | 16 (16.5) | 36 (14.2) | 36 (19.3) | 38 (23.5) | 74 (21.2)∗ | 72 (29.1) †‡ | 91 (27.7) † | 163 (28.3) †‡ |
| Hypertriglyceridaemia | 32 (20.5) | 16 (16.5) | 48 (19.0) | 66 (35.3)∗ | 44 (27.2) | 110 (31.5)∗ | 134 (54.3) †‡ | 152 (46.2) †‡ | 286 (49.7) †‡ |
| Increased LDL | 37 (23.7) | 21 (21.6) | 58 (22.9) | 39 (20.9) | 47 (29.0) | 86 (24.6) | 51 (20.6) | 70 (21.3) | 121 (21.0) |
| Low HDL cholesterol | 13 (8.3) | 76 (78.4) | 89 (35.2) | 17 (9.1) | 134 (82.7) | 151 (43.3) | 26 (10.5) | 287 (87.2) † | 313 (54.3) †‡ |
Values are shown as no (%),∗Group I versus II; statistical significance at the p < 0.05 level.
†Group I versus III; all statistical significant (p < 0.05); ‡Group II versus III statistical significance (p < 0.05).