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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Sep 22.
Published in final edited form as: Health Place. 2021 Jun 29:102611. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102611

Table 1.

Individual-, neighborhood- and city-level characteristics by non-communicable disease risk factors. Argentina, National Survey of Risk Factors, 2013 (n = 21,451).

Diabetes Hypertension Obesity Smoking Binge drinking
Yes (n = 1,852) No (n = 19,485) Yes (n = 6,956) No (n = 14,330) Yes (n = 5,516) No (n = 15,935) Yes (n = 5,755) No (n = 15,696) Yes (n = 4,280) No (n = 16,984)
Women, % 54.37 56.37 61.17 53.98 55.13 56.55 48.27 59.09 37.83 60.61
p value (χ2) 0.098 < 0.001 0.066 < 0.001 < 0.001
Age, mean (SD) 56.95
(16.22)		 43.57
(17.70)		 54.33
(17.70)		 40.16
(16.19)		 48.27
(17.18)		 43.52
(18.08)		 40.38
(14.77)		 46.34
(18.77)		 36.26
(14.19)		 46.92
(18.20)
p value (t-test) < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001
Individual education, %
Less than primary 16.95 8.57 14.32 6.88 14.41 7.56 7.91 9.84 6.31 10.11
Primary 41.52 36.43 42.88 33.90 43.49 34.64 42.42 34.90 39.46 36.33
Secondary 28.19 37.81 28.98 40.82 30.84 39.03 36.92 36.93 40.49 35.92
University 13.34 17.19 13.82 18.40 11.26 18.77 12.75 18.34 13.74 17.64
p value (χ2) < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001
Neighborhood
    education, mean (SD)		 46.81
(19.58)		 47.71
(20.58)		 46.87
(19.88)		 48.05
(20.79)		 43.73
(19.21)		 48.98
(20.76)		 45.84
(20.19)		 48.29
(20.58)		 47.49
(21.3)		 47.67
(20.31)
p value (t-test) 0.071 < 0.001 < 0.001 < 0.001 0.611
City education, mean
    (SD)		 38.14
(3.39)		 38.00
(3.46)		 37.98
(3.56)		 38.03
(3.40)		 38.00
(3.44)		 38.02
(3.46)		 38.14
(3.36)		 37.96
(3.49)		 38.24
(3.34)		 37.95
(3.48)
p value (t-test) 0.109 0.334 0.725 < 0.001 < 0.001

p-values test the null hypothesis that there is no difference in the proportion (χ2) or mean (t-test) of the characteristic between people with and without the NCD/RF.