Reported Hours of Sleep, Diabetes Prevalence and Glucose Control in Jamaican Adults: Analysis from the Jamaica Lifestyle Survey 2007-2008

Table 1

Characteristics of the study population by sex.

Characteristics	Men; 𝑛=754	Women; 𝑛=1678	𝑃 value
Age (yrs)	42.2 ± 17.0	42.8 ± 15.5	0.80^b
Urban (%)	57.2	57.5	0.89^c
Depression (%)^a	0.8	3.9	<0.01^c
BMI (kg/m^2)^a	24.7 ± 5.4	28.9 ± 6.8	<0.01^b
Mean hours of sleep^a	7.8 ± 1.8	8.3 ± 1.8	<0.01
Poor quality of sleep (%)^a	34.8	46.4	<0.01^c
All Diabetes (%)	10.6	13.1	0.09^c
Newly diagnosed (%)^a	4.4	3.3
Established diabetes (%)^a	6.2	9.8
Diabetes Duration (yrs)	10.3	6.2	0.15^c
Hypertension (%)	31.0	33.1	0.32^c
Family history of diabetes (%)^a	30.2	41.7	<0.01^c
Highest level of education (%)^a			0.03^c
Primary/junior high	43.2	37.5
Secondary	40.6	45.0
Post-secondary	16.2	17.5
Persons/habitable room^a	1.0	1.3	<0.01^b, d
Alcohol use (%)^a			<0.01^c
Nondrinker	19.9	54.8
Drinker	80.1	45.3
Smoker (%)^a	67.7	51.0	<0.01^c
Physical activity (%)^a			<0.01^c
High activity	47.2	18.8
Medium activity	22.9	19.2
Low activity/inactive	29.9	62.0

Data are given as mean ± SD unless otherwise specified. ^aindicates there is a significant difference (𝑃<0.05) between the sexes, ^bWilcoxon rank sum test, ^cChi square test, ^dMedian value presented.