Table 2.
Proportions (standard errors) of numbers of ideal cardiovascular health metrics, Ideal health behaviours, and ideal health factors according to sex in urban Chinese children and adolescents aged 6–18 years in 2013–2015.
| Overall | Sex |
pa | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Males | Females | |||
| Number of ideal health components | (n = 7484) | (n = 3992) | (n = 3492) | |
| 0 | 0.1 (0.1) | 0.2 (0.1) | 0.1 (0.1) | <.001 |
| 1 | 1.2 (0.1) | 1.5 (0.1) | 0.9 (0.1) | |
| 2 | 5.6 (0.3) | 7.8 (0.5) | 3.2 (0.3) | |
| 3 | 17.8 (0.5) | 21.3 (0.8) | 14.0 (0.6) | |
| 4 | 33.1 (0.7) | 33.5 (1.0) | 32.7 (1.0) | |
| 5 | 34.0 (0.7) | 27.8 (0.7) | 40.7 (1.1) | |
| 6 | 7.8 (0.3) | 7.5 (0.4) | 8.2 (0.5) | |
| 7 | 0.5 (0.1) | 0.5 (0.1) | 0.4 (0.1) | |
| Number of ideal health behaviours | (n = 7514) | (n = 4009) | (n = 3505) | |
| 0 | 1.5 (0.1) | 2.1 (0.1) | 0.8 (0.1) | <.001 |
| 1 | 21.6 (0.6) | 27.5 (0.9) | 15.2 (0.7) | |
| 2 | 60.4 (0.9) | 52.8 (1.2) | 68.6 (1.5) | |
| 3 | 15.6 (0.5) | 16.3 (0.7) | 14.8 (0.7) | |
| 4 | 0.9 (0.1) | 1.1 (0.1) | 0.7 (0.1) | |
| Number of ideal health factors | (n = 12014) | (n = 6103) | (n = 5911) | |
| 0 | 2.0 (0.1) | 2.5 (0.2) | 1.6 (0.2) | <.001 |
| 1 | 14.0 (0.4) | 16.5 (0.6) | 11.2 (0.4) | |
| 2 | 39.8 (0.6) | 42.7 (0.9) | 36.7 (0.8) | |
| 3 | 44.2 (0.6) | 38.4 (0.8) | 50.5 (1.0) | |
Numbers may not add up to 100% due to rounding. ap-values for difference between sex groups adjusting for age.