Table 1.
Characteristics of participants with and without MetS and who climb or do not climb stairs every day
| Variable | No MetS (N = 402) |
MetS (N = 380) |
p | Daily Stairs Stairs (N = 676) |
Not Daily (N = 106) |
p |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (SD) / N (%) | Mean (SD) / N (%) | |||||
| Sex (Male) | 167 (42) | 192 (51) | .01 | 315 (47) | 44 (42) | .33 |
| Age (years) | 58.4 (0.96) | 58.3 (0.94) | .40 | 58.3 (0.94) | 58.4 (1.03) | .60 |
| Marital Status | ||||||
| Married | 303 (76) | 294 (78) | .92 | 527 (78) | 70 (66) | .09 |
| Divorced | 45 (11) | 38 (10) | 66 (10) | 17 (16) | ||
| Widowed | 21 (5) | 18 (5) | 32 (5) | 7 (7) | ||
| Never married | 32 (8) | 29 (8) | 49 (7) | 12 (11) | ||
| Socio-economic status | 50.2 (14.14) | 49.2 (14.23) | .33 | 50.0 (14.35) | 48.2 (13.02) | .22 |
| Smoking | ||||||
| Smoker | 98 (24) | 94 (25) | .03 | 156 (23) | 36 (34) | .04 |
| Ex-smoker | 144 (36) | 166 (44) | 270 (40) | 40 (39) | ||
| Never smoker | 160 (40) | 119 (31) | 249 (37) | 30 (27) | ||
| Self-reported health (reverse-scored) | 2.8 (0.85) | 3.1 (0.88) | <.001 | 2.9 (0.86) | 3.2 (0.95) | .02 |
| Sports participation (Yes) | 253 (63) | 184 (48) | <.001 | 380 (56) | 57 (54) | .63 |
| Famine exposure in 1st trimester (Yes) | 36 (9) | 38 (10) | .62 | 62 (9) | 12 (11) | .48 |
| MetS (Yes) | – | – | – | 315 (47) | 65 (61) | <.01 |
| MetS (N of components) | 1.4 (0.71) | 3.5 (0.66) | <.001 | 2.4 (1.27) | 2.8 (1.17) | <.01 |
| Daily stair climbing (Yes) | 361 (90) | 315 (83) | <.01 | – | – | – |