Comparative Abilities of Fasting Plasma Glucose and Haemoglobin A1c in Predicting Metabolic Syndrome among Apparently Healthy Normoglycemic Ghanaian Adults

Table 2

Biochemical parameters of studied population stratified by gender.

Variables	Male			Female
	Total	No MetS	MetS	Total	No MetS	MetS
	(n=68)	(n=60)	(n=8)	(n=92)	(n=72)	(n=20)
Age (years)	41.4±14.8	41.8±15.2	38.6±10.9	43.8±14.3	41.5±14.2‡‡	52.0±11.8
HbA1c (%)	4.8±1.3	4.8±1.3	5.1±1.1	4.9±1.2	4.7±1.1	5.3±1.3
FPG (mmol/L)	5.0±0.9	5.0±0.9	5.6±0.7	4.9±1.0	4.6±0.9‡‡‡	5.8±0.7

HbA1c: Haemoglobin A1c and FPG: Fasting Blood Glucose. Data are presented as mean ± SD and compared using T-test. ‡Comparing females with MetS with females without MetS. ‡Comparison is significant at the 0.05 level, ‡‡Comparison is significant at the 0.01 level, and ‡‡‡Comparison is significant at the 0.001 level.