Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Research Article

Influence of Biomedical Factors on the Five Viscera Score (FVS) on Middle-Aged and Elderly Individuals: Application of Structural Equation Modeling

Table 2

Biomedical characteristics of respondents.
Item Male () Female () value
(%) (%)
Age (y)   
 40–49 12 (15.0) 12 (12.1)  
 50–59 20 (25.0) 27 (27.3)  
 60–65 48 (60.0) 60 (60.6)  
 Whole subjects mean (SD) 58.1 (7.2) 58.1 (6.5)  
 Male ()Female () value
 Mean (SD) Mean (SD)
Medical data   
 BMI (kg/m2) 23.7 (2.8) 22.0 (4.2) <0.001
 TG (mg/dL) 150.8 (105.4) 110.0 (56.3) 0.003
 HDL-C (mg/dL) 59.1 (14.5) 68.7 (12.6) <0.001
 LDL-C (mg/dL) 119.5 (31.8) 126.6 (30.2) 0.087
 GLU (mg/dL) 102.1 (18.5) 93.1 (14.7) <0.001
 HbA1c (%) 5.2 (0.6) 5.1 (0.5) 0.545
 UA (mg/dL) 6.1 (1.5) 4.3 (1.0) <0.001
 GOT (IU/L) 25.7 (13.4) 22.3 (5.7) 0.014
 GPT (IU/L) 27.1 (13.6) 19.2 (6.5) <0.001
 -GTP (IU/L) 60.5 (130.0) 29.5 (81.0) <0.001
 Urinary protein (mg/dL) 12.3 (11.4) 10.4 (1.8) 0.774
 RBC (×104/uL) 487.3 (40.1) 440.7 (28.4) <0.001
 HCT (%) 46.2 (3.4) 41.2 (3.0) <0.001
 Systolic blood pressure (mmHg) 129.7 (17.1) 119.1 (15.7) <0.001
 Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg) 76.3 (11.3) 69.2 (9.3) <0.001
 Creatinine clearance (Ccr) (mL/min) 83.0 (16.7) 85.8 (15.4) 0.325
 Albumin/creatinine ratio (mg/gCr) 19.3 (56.2) 13.7 (15.5) 0.002
 HCRP (mg/dL) 0.042 (0.057) 0.042 (0.094) 0.230
Body mass index (BMI), triglyceride (TG) (mg/dL), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) (mg/dL), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) (mg/dL), glucose (GLU) (mg/dL), hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) (%), uric acid (UA) (mg/dL), glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (GOT, AST) (IU/L), glutamic pyruvic transaminase (GPT, ALT) (IU/L), -glutamyl transpeptidase (-GTP) (IU/L), red blood cell (RBC) (×104/uL), hematocrit (HCT) (%), systolic blood pressure (mmHg), diastolic blood pressure (mmHg), high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (HCRP) (mg/dL), urinary protein (mg/dL), albumin/creatinine ratio (ACR) (mg/gCr), and creatinine clearance (Ccr) (mL/min). As for medical data, significant differences were observed for all except LDL-C, HbA1c, urinary protein, creatinine clearance, and HCRP by Mann-Whitney test.