Relationship between Alcohol Consumption and Components of the Metabolic Syndrome in Adult Population from Maracaibo City, Venezuela

Table 4

Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome components by gender and daily alcohol intake quartiles. Maracaibo, 2015.

	Hyperglycemia		Low HDL-C		Elevated waist circumference		High blood pressure		High TAG
		%		%		%		%		%
Females
Nondrinkers	253	25.9	635	65.1	769	78.8	354	36.3	236	24.2
<3.80 g/day	11	20.8	28	52.8	37	69.8	14	26.4	4	7.5
3.80–10.41 g/day	13	28.9	29	64.4	37	82.2	8	17.8	7	15.6
10.42–28.40 g/day	14	24.1	35	60.3	50	86.2	20	34.5	12	20.7
≥28.41 g/day	10	25.0	25	62.5	33	82.5	14	35.0	10	25.0
Males
Nondrinkers	165	28.4	305	52.4	402	69.1	244	41.9	176	30.2
<9.54 g/day	38	31.9	58	48.7	87	73.1	49	41.2	33	27.7
9.54–28.40 g/day	41	28.3	76	52.4	108	74.5	64	44.1	56	38.6
28.41–47.33 g/day	37	41.6	46	51.7	70	78.7	46	51.7	38	42.7
>47.33 g/day	41	33.3	51	41.5	82	66.7	53	43.1	44	35.8

HDL-C: High-Density Lipoprotein-Cholesterol. TAG: triacylglycerides.
Pearson’s Chi-squared test ():
Females: hyperglycemia: () = 1.028 (0.90); low HDL-C: () = 3.720 (0.44); elevated waist circumference: () = 5.118 (0.27); high blood pressure: () = 8.285 (0.08); high TAG: () = 9.600 (0.04).
Males: hyperglycemia: () = 7.343 (0.11); low HDL-C: () = 5.263 (0.26); elevated waist circumference: () = 5.768 (0.21); high blood pressure: () = 3.246 (0.51); high TAG: () = 9.794 (0.04).