Table 2.
Anthropometrics and medical data of the participants.
| Total Population n (%) 2 |
Women n (%) |
Men n (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1082 (100) | 804 (74.3) | 278 (25.7) | ||||
| Age (years) 1 | 32.5 | 12.0 | 31.1 | 10.8 | 36.5 | 14.2 |
| Weight (kg) 1 | 71.1 | 15.2 | 67.8 | 13.9 | 80.5 | 14.8 |
| Height (m) 1 | 1.68 | 0.08 | 1.64 | 0.06 | 1.77 | 0.06 |
| BMI (kg/m2) 1 | 25.1 | 4.9 | 25.0 | 5.0 | 25.4 | 4.4 |
| Nutritional status 2 | p = 0.20 3 | |||||
| Underweight | 60 (5.5) | 50 (6.2) | 10 (3.6) | |||
| Normal weight | 528 (48.8) | 396 (49.2) | 132 (47.5) | |||
| Preobese | 337 (31.1) | 241 (30.0) | 96 (34.5) | |||
| Obese | 157 (14.5) | 117 (14.6) | 40 (14.4) | |||
| History of chronic diseases (number of diseases) 2 | p = 0.20 3 | |||||
| No chronic disease | 852 (78.7) | 632 (78.6) | 220 (79.1) | |||
| One disease | 195 (18.0) | 143 (17.8) | 52 (18.7) | |||
| Multiple diseases | 35 (3.2) | 29 (3.6) | 6 (2.1) | |||
| History of chronic diseases (type of diseases) 2 | p = 0.002 3 | |||||
| Cardiovascular diseases | 25 (10.9) | 14 (8.1) | 11 (19.0) | |||
| Endocrine, nutritional, or metabolic diseases | 56 (24.3) | 37 (21.5) | 19 (32.7) | |||
| Respiratory and ENT diseases | 14 (6.1) | 8 (4.6) | 6 (10.3) | |||
| Digestive diseases | 13 (5.7) | 12 (7.0) | 1 (1.7) | |||
| Hematological diseases | 26 (11.3) | 26 (15.1) | 0 (0.0) | |||
| Genecology, urinary and kidney diseases | 9 (3.9) | 5 (2.9) | 4 (6.8) | |||
| Cancer | 2 (0.9) | 2 (1.2) | 0 (0.0) | |||
| Other diseases | 50 (21.7) | 39 (22.7) | 11 (19.0) | |||
| Morbid health status (more than 3 diseases) | 35 (15.2) | 29 (16.9) | 6 (10.3) | |||
| Diet 2 | p = 0.004 3 | |||||
| Spontaneous feeding with no diet | 960 (88.7) | 713 (88.7) | 247 (88.8) | |||
| Healthy diet | 23 (2.1) | 15 (3.2) | 8 (1.4) | |||
| Weight-loss diet | 34 (3.1) | 29 (3.6) | 5 (1.8) | |||
| Reduced sugar/salt diet | 20 (1.8) | 8 (1.0) | 12 (4.3) | |||
| Therapeutic diet | 13 (1.2) | 11 (1.4) | 2 (0.7) | |||
| Vegetarian diet | 2 (0.2) | 2 (0.2) | 0 (0.0) | |||
| Not specified | 30 (2.8) | 26 (3.2) | 4 (1.4) | |||
| Incidence of COVID-19 2 | p = 0.55 3 | |||||
| Not exposed | 734 (67.8) | 539 (67.0) | 195 (70.1) | |||
| Suspected infection | 168 (15.5) | 132 (16.4) | 36 (12.9) | |||
| Mid-form infection | 167 (15.4) | 124 (15.4) | 43 (15.5) | |||
| Severe form infection | 13 (1.2) | 9 (1.1) | 4 (1.4) | |||
| Occurrence of family death due to COVID-19 2 | p = 0.90 3 | |||||
| No | 886 (81.9) | 659 (82.0) | 227 (81.6) | |||
| Yes | 196 (18.1) | 145 (18.0) | 51 (18.4) | |||
| Vaccination against COVID-19 2 | p = 0.14 3 | |||||
| No | 847 (78.3) | 638 (79.3) | 209 (75.2) | |||
| Yes | 235 (21.7) | 166 (20.7) | 69 (24.8) | |||
1 Data are expressed as means with standard deviation in separate columns. 2 Data are expressed as total number of respondents with proportions between brackets for categorical variables. 3 p-value: null hypothesis of same distribution between both sexes (chi-squared and Fisher exact test); null hypothesis rejected at p < 0.05.