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Table 1 Mean levels of cardiovascular risk factors according to community size

From: Cardiovascular risk factors differ between rural and urban Sweden: the 2009 Northern Sweden MONICA cohort

  

Age

SBP

DBP

Waist

Hip

BMI

Chol

fGlu

2 h-glu

Men

City

48.6 (14.7)

128.1 (16.0)

80.4 (10.5)

94.0 (11.0)

100.3 (6.7)

26.7 (3.8)

5.39 (1.1)

5.3 (0.7)

5.68 (2.1)

 

Town

52.1 (12.6)

131.6 (18.3)

82.4 (10.3)

95.9 (11.5)

101.0 (7.3)

27.4 (4.5)

5.81 (1.2)

5.53 (1.3)

6.39 (2.7)

 

Rural

56.7 (12.3)

131.8 (17.6)

82.3 (10.4)

96.8 (11.1)

101.2 (6.5)

27.5 (3.8)

5.76 1.2)

5.46 (0.7)

5.84 (2.2)

 

p

<.001

0.009

0.031

0.007

0.2

0.018

<0.001

0.14

0.045

Women

City

48.3 (14.5)

122.6 (19.5)

76.2 (10.6)

83.1 (13.4)

101.1 (10.6)

26.1 (5.4)

5.44 (1.1)

5.30 (0.7)

6.45 (2.4)

 

Town

52.4 (13.3)

125.5 (18.0)

77.1 (9.6)

86.0 (12.8)

102.4 (8.8)

26.9 (4.8)

5.77 (1.1)

5.26 (0.6)

6.56 (1.8)

 

Rural

55.0 (11.9)

129.5 (18.7)

77.9 (9.0)

87.9 (13.9)

103.6 (11.2)

27.9 (5.9)

5.78 (1.3)

5.39 (0.7)

6.76 (2.3)

 

p

<.001

0.001

0.16

<.001

0.027

0.001

<0.001

0.5

0.6

All

p*

 

0.3

0.16

0.006

0.013

0.001

0.013

0.6

0.6

 

p**

 

0.4

0.14

0.014

0.024

0.004

0.016

0.7

0.4

  1. Standard deviations within parenthesis. Analysis by ANOVA.
  2. SBP = Systolic blood pressure, DBP = Diastolic blood pressure, Chol = Total cholesterol, fGlu = Fasting glucose, 2 h-glu = 2 hour glucose, p* = age and gender adjusted, p** = age, gender and education adjusted.