Table 5.
BMI among the socioeconomic statuses—the Latin American Health and Nutrition Study (ELANS).
| Total | Sex | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ELANS | Men | Women | |||||||||
| Socioeconomic Status | Mean | SD | N | Mean | SD | N | Mean | SD | N | % | p Value |
| Low | 26.92 | 5.71 | 879 | 26.01 | 5.11 | 2218 | 27.72 | 6.08 | 2572 | 6.17% | 0.001 |
| Middle | 26.91 | 5.48 | 3539 | 26.52 | 5.22 | 1749 | 27.30 | 5.70 | 1790 | 2.87% | 0.001 |
| High | 27.30 | 5.62 | 4790 | 27.10 | 5.62 | 436 | 27.49 | 5.62 | 443 | 1.40% | 0.311 |
| Total | 26.96 | 5.62 | 9208 | 26.32 | 5.22 | 4403 | 27.54 | 5.90 | 4805 | 1.09% | 0.0001 |
Standard deviation (SD). % indicates the proportion of women relative to men, expressed in percentages. p values correspond to multivariate variance analyses comparing the three socioeconomic levels by sex, controlled by country and age. See main text for details.