The Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome and Its Components among People with Type 2 Diabetes in the Ho Municipality, Ghana: A Cross-Sectional Study
Table 4
Prevalence of metabolic syndrome and metabolic score among the population stratified by gender.
Parameters
Total
Male
Female
value
Prevalence of metabolic syndrome
WHO
103 (63.58)
32 (52.46)
71 (70.30)
0.0285
NCEP-ATP III
71 (43.83)
26 (42.62)
45 (44.55)
0.8708
IDF
112 (69.14)
24 (39.34)
88 (87.13)
<0.0001
Prevalence of clustering of one or more components of metabolic syndrome
WHO
1
10 (6.17)
6 (9.84)
4 (3.96)
0.7306
2
49 (30.25)
23 (37.70)
26 (25.74)
>2 without MetS
0 (0.00)
0 (0.00)
0 (0.00)
NCEP-ATP III
1
13 (8.02)
8 (13.12)
5 (4.95)
0.1208
2
78 (48.15)
27 (44.26)
51 (50.50)
>2 without MetS
0 (0.00)
0 (0.00)
0 (0.00)
IDF
1
50 (30.86)
37 (60.66)
13 (12.87)
<0.0001
>2 without MetS
0 (0.00)
0 (0.00)
0 (0.00)
Data is presented as frequency with corresponding percentage in parenthesis. WHO: World Health Organization, NCEP-ATP III: National Cholesterol Education Program, Adult Treatment Panel III, IDF: International Diabetes Federation, and MetS: metabolic syndrome. is significant at 0.05.
