Socioeconomic Impact on the Prevalence of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Wallonia, Belgium: A Population-Based Study

Table 2

Anthropometric, clinical, and biological characteristics by age category and gender in the NESCaV sample ().

Characteristic	Age category (years)			value^a	value^b
	20–29	30–49	50–69
Number of subjects (male/female)	200 (100/100)	436 (218/218)	381 (188/193)
BMI (kg/m²)
Male	24.9 ± 0.5	26.5 ± 0.3	28.1 ± 0.3	<0.0001	<0.0001
Female	23.3 ± 0.5	24.8 ± 0.3	26.9 ± 0.4
WC (cm)
Male	84.9 ± 1.2	91.0 ± 0.8	98.4 ± 0.9	<0.0001	<0.0001
Female	73.9 ± 1.0	79.3 ± 0.8	85.5 ± 1.0
SBP (mmHg)
Male	127.4 ± 1.2	127.7 ± 0.9	134.8 ± 1.2	<0.0001	<0.0001
Female	111.7 ± 1.2	114.0 ± 0.9	126.3 ± 1.2
DBP (mmHg)
Male	74.4 ± 0.8	78.9 ± 0.7	82.7 ± 0.7	<0.0001	<0.0001
Female	69.4 ± 1.0	73.8 ± 0.7	77.3 ± 0.8
FPG (mg/dL)
Male	85.3 ± 0.6	91.4 ± 1.1	100.4 ± 2.3	<0.0001	<0.0001
Female	79.8 ± 0.6	84.9 ± 0.9	91.5 ± 1.7
HDL-C (mg/dL)
Male	57.0 ± 1.4	53.6 ± 0.9	54.5 ± 1.1	0.095	<0.0001
Female	67.6 ± 1.4	66.6 ± 1.1	69.4 ± 1.3
LDL-C (mg/dL)
Male	103.5 ± 3.1	126.0 ± 2.1	127.5 ± 2.6	<0.0001	0.002
Female	96.5 ± 2.7	111.4 ± 2.0	130.9 ± 2.5
TC (mg/dL)
Male	174.5 ± 3.3	198.9 ± 2.5	203.4 ± 2.9	<0.0001	0.16
Female	179.0 ± 3.1	191.5 ± 2.4	217.9 ± 2.7
TG (mg/dL)
Male	88.1 ± 5.7	115.8 ± 5.2	124.9 ± 5.3	<0.0001	<0.0001
Female	88.5 ± 3.8	78.6 ± 2.7	102.6 ± 4.4

Age effect, ^bgender effect.