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Table 1 General information of the study cohort

From: Description and prediction of the development of metabolic syndrome in Dongying City: a longitudinal analysis using the Markov model

Variablesa

Baseline (N=7510)

1-year follow-up (N=6480)

2-year follow-up (N=5420)

3-year follow-up (N=4644)

4-year follow-up (N=2899)

5-year follow-up (N=1106)

P b

Age (years)

41.02±10.26

41.86±10.21

43.57±10.16

45.38±10.16

47.67±10.86

46.53±7.72

<0.0001

Sex (male)

5118 (68.17%)

4299 (66.34%)

3592 (66.27%)

3041 (65.48%)

1879 (64.82%)

811 (73.33%)

<0.0001

Overweight or obesity

3088 (41.12%)

2642 (40.77%)

2346 (43.28%)

2057 (44.29%)

1198 (41.32%)

557 (50.36%)

<0.0001

Hypertension

2237 (29.79%)

2505 (38.66%)

2335 (43.08%)

2251 (48.47%)

1568 (54.09%)

672 (60.76%)

<0.0001

Dyslipidemia

2008 (26.74%)

1887 (29.12%)

1673 (30.87%)

1447 (31.16%)

954 (32.91%)

362 (32.73%)

<0.0001

Hyperglycemia

614 (8.18%)

729 (11.26%)

770 (14.21%)

772 (16.62%)

615 (21.21%)

237 (21.43%)

<0.0001

MS

893 (11.89%)

990 (15.28%)

985 (18.17%)

940 (20.24%)

661 (22.80%)

289 (26.13%)

<0.0001

  1. aValues for continuous characteristics were expressed as mean ± SD; values for categorical data were expressed as n (%).
  2. bP for each row testing the null hypothesis that values for six years were equal.