Table 2 Components of metabolic syndrome and parental CVDs, diabetes and hypertension
From: Metabolic syndrome and parental history of cardiovascular disease in young adults in urban Ghana
Parental CVDs | Parental diabetes | Parental hypertension | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Absent | Present | p | Absent | Present | p | Absent | Present | p | |
All participants (n = 364) | |||||||||
High BP | 95 (34.8) | 35 (39.1) | 0.469 | 106 (34.8) | 23 (38.7) | 0.608 | 101 (34.7) | 29 (39.3) | 0.485 |
Low HDL | 81 (29.7) | 32 (35.9) | 0.286 | 90 (29.7) | 22 (37.1) | 0.279 | 86 (29.6) | 28 (37.7) | 0.175 |
Abdominal obesity | 42 (15.2) | 23 (25) | 0.028 | 46 (15.2) | 16 (25.8) | 0.298 | 44 (15.2) | 19 (26.2) | 0.033 |
IFG | 50 (18.1) | 17 (18.8) | 0.914 | 55 (18.1) | 12 (19.4) | 0.727 | 53 (18.4) | 13 (18) | 0.887 |
Hypertriglycerimia | 1 (1.1) | 3 (3.6) | 0.059 | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | ||
Males (n = 174) | |||||||||
High BP | 37 (23.4) | 5 (31.3) | 0.485 | 41 (27.2) | 6 (16.2) | 0.915 | 21 (14.2) | 7 (26.9) | 0.1 |
Low HDL | 9 (6) | 5 (31.3) | 0.001 | 11 (7.3) | 3 (8.1) | 0.344 | 14 (9.5) | 2 (7.7) | 0.774 |
IFG | 18 (11.4) | 3 (18.8) | 0.389 | 15 (9.9) | 2 (5.4) | 0.852 | 11 (7.4) | 4 (15.4) | 0.183 |
Females (n = 190) | |||||||||
High BP | 58 (50) | 30 (40.5) | 0.202 | 41 (27) | 17 (45.9) | 0.023 | 62 (43.7) | 22 (45.8) | 0.793 |
Low HDL | 72 (62.1) | 28 (37.8) | 0.001 | 27 (17.6) | 19 (51.4) | <0.001 | 30 (21.1) | 26 (54.2) | <0.001 |
Abdominal obesity | 42 (36.2) | 23 (31.1) | 0.468 | 46 (15.2) | 16 (25.8) | 0.125 | 53 (18.4) | 13 (18) | 0.198 |
IFG | 32 (27.6) | 14 (18.9) | 0.174 | 21 (13.7) | 10 (27) | 0.049 | 17 (12) | 9 (18.8) | 0.238 |