Table 2 The prevalence of individual metabolic abnormalities for boys and girls according to age.
From: Metabolic Syndrome and Its Individual Components among Jordanian Children and Adolescents
Age (year) | |||||||
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Variable |
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Boys | Girls | Total | Boys | Girls | Total |
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Abdominal obesity | .025 | ||||||
Yes | 4 (2.1) | 11 (5.3) | 15 (3.7) | 16 (5.7) | 29 (8.2) | 45 (7.1) | |
No | 189 (97.9) | 197 (94.7) | 386 (96.3) | 266 (94.3) | 325 (91.8) | 591 (92.9) | |
Triglycerides level | .072 | ||||||
High | 22 (11.3) | 37 (17.6) | 59 (14.6) | 57 (20.1) | 64 (17.9) | 121 (18.9) | |
Normal | 173 (88.7) | 173 (82.4) | 346 (85.4) | 226 (79.9) | 294 (82.1) | 520 (81.1) | |
HDL cholesterol | .001 | ||||||
Low | 42 (21.5) | 41 (19.5) | 83 (20.5) | 100 (35.3) | 90 (25.1)* | 190 (29.6) | |
Normal | 153 (78.5) | 169 (80.5) | 322 (79.5) | 183 (64.7) | 268 (74.9) | 451 (70.4) | |
Blood pressure | .002 | ||||||
High | 5 (2.6) | 8 (3.8) | 13 (3.2) | 34 (12.1) | 17 (4.8)* | 51 (8.0) | |
Normal | 188 (97.4) | 202 (96.2) | 390 (96.8) | 248 (87.9) | 337 (95.2) | 585 (92.0) | |
Fasting blood glucose | .462 | ||||||
Elevated | 10 (8.1) | 6 (4.5) | 16 (6.2) | 14 (8.0) | 18 (7.5) | 32 (7.7) | |
Normal | 113 (91.9) | 128 (95.5) | 241 (93.8) | 161 (92.0) | 221 (92.5) | 382 (92.3) | |
Number of metabolic abnormalities | |||||||
0 | 73 (59.3) | 89 (67.4) | 162 (63.5) | 79 (45.1) | 129 (54.9) | 208 (50.7) | .001 |
| 50 (40.7) | 43 (32.6) | 93 (36.5) | 96 (54.9) | 106 (45.1) | 202 (49.3) | .001 |
| 12 (9.8) | 22 (16.7) | 34 (13.3) | 38 (21.7) | 35 (14.9) | 73 (17.8) | .127 |
| 0 (0) | 2 (1.5) | 2 (0.8) | 17 (9.7) | 9 (3.8)* | 26 (6.3) | .001 |
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