The impact of a private sector living wage intervention on consumption and cardiovascular disease risk factors in a middle income country

Table 4 Matched analyses of the effects of the living wage factory on worker cardiovascular risk factors

	Treatment effect	Standard error	T-statistic	p-value
Clinical cut-points
High blood pressure	-2.0	6.9	0.29	0.78
High pulse rate	-7.6	9.7	0.78	0.43
Obese	8.1	8.4	0.96	0.33
Overweight	11	10	1.1	0.27
Large waist circumference	-1.0	8.9	0.11	0.91
Continuous measures
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg)	-2.9	2.9	1.0	0.32
Diastolic blood pressure (mm Hg)	-2.1	2.5	0.85	0.40
Pulse rate (beats per minute)	-1.2	2.6	0.47	0.63
BMI (kg/m²)	1.4	1.1	1.3	0.20
Waist circumference (cm)	-0.072	2.2	0.032	0.97

Table notes: Treatment effect is the difference between the mean in the control factory subtracted from the mean of the treatment factory. Frequencies for clinical cut-points were: high blood pressure (n=34); high pulse rate (n=50); obese (n=34); overweight (n=95); large waist circumference (n=110). Obesity was defined as BMI ≥ 30, overweight as BMI ≥ 25, high blood pressure as systolic ≥ 120 mmHg or diastolic ≥ 80 mmHg, tachycardia as ≥85 beats per minute, and high waist circumference as ≥ 85 cm for women and ≥ 90 cm for men

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