Tab. II.

Spearmann test performed to evaluate the role of independent variables on the clinical-laboratory and anthropometric parameters.

	Diastolic blood pressure		Sistolic blood pressure		Fasting blood glucose		Post-prandial glucose		BMI		Abdominal circumference
	M	W	M	W	M	W	M	W	M	W	M	W
	R (p)	R (p)	R (p)	R (p)	R (p)	R (p)	R (p)	R (p)	R (p)	R (p)	R (p)	R (p)
Age		0.167 (0.0004)		0.214 (< 0.0001)
Educational Level								-0.124 (0.0222)		-0.217 (< 0.0001)		-0.175 (0.0002)
Working Activity	0.163 (0.021)		0.163 (0.021)				-0.185 (0.045)	0.124 (0.0225)				-0.096 (0.0434)
Familiarity for hypertension
Familiarity for diabetes	0.166 (0.018)		0.166 (0.018)							0.150 (0.0015)		0.134 (0.0047)
Familiarity for both	0.174 (0.013)		0.174 (0.013)							0.138 (0.0034)		0.138 (0.0034)
Diastolic pressure						0.318 (0.0009)			0.365 (< 0.0001)	0.361 (< 0.0001)	0.331 (< 0.0001)	0.316 (< 0.0001)
Sistolic pressure									0.289 (< 0.0001)	0.265 (< 0.0001)	0.345 (< 0.0001)	0.194 (< 0.0001)
BMI	0.289 (< 0.0001)	0.361 (< 0.0001)	0.289 (< 0.0001)	0.265 (< 0.0001)		0.316 (0.0010)	0.190 (0.037)	0.181 (0.0007)			0.849 (< 0.0001)	0.819 (< 0.0001)
Abdominal circumfe-rence	0.345 (< 0.0001)	0.316 (< 0.0001)	0.345 (< 0.0001)	0.194 (< 0.0001)		0.255 (0.0086)		0.107 (0.0473)	0.849 (< 0.0001)	0.819 (< 0.0001)
Fasting glucose		0.318 (0.0009)										0.255 (0.0086)
Post-prandial glucose									0.190 (0.0375)	0.181 (0.0007)		0.176 (0.0011)
Smoking habit
Physical activity		-0.118 (0.013)		-0.136 (0.004)			-0.236 (0.010)			-0.236 (< 0.0001)		-0.289 (< 0.0001)
Alchol Intake									0.306 (0.0055)		0.153 (0.03)
Dietary habit		-0.144 (0.002)		-0.161 (0.0007)						-0.130 (0.0058)		-0.103 (0.0292)

M: men; W: women.