High-Sensitive C-Reactive Protein Levels in a Group of Syrian University Male Students and Its Associations with Smoking, Physical Activity, Anthropometric Measurements, and Some Hematologic Inflammation Biomarkers

Table 1

Anthropometric characteristics of the participants ; the results are presented as mean ± standard deviation (SD), median, first and third quartiles (Q1–Q3), minimum, and maximum. Damascus, Syria, April 2016.

Characteristic, unit	Mean ± SD	Median (Q1–Q3)	Minimum	Maximum
Age, year	21.63 ± 2.10	22 (20–23)	18	25
Height, cm	176.24 ± 7.12	176 (171–180)	159	203
Weight, kg	79.44 ± 13.08	78 (67.4–87.7)	54.7	118.0
BMI, kg/cm^2	25.60 ± 4.39	24.62 (22.76–27.97)	16.99	38.53
Waist, cm	90.58 ± 10.29	89 (84–98)	71	120
Hip, cm	103.91 ± 8.60	104 (97–109)	85	133
WHR ratio	0.87 ± 0.05	0.87 (0.83–0.91)	0.75	0.98

After the elimination of 2 outliers, which were out of the range of 2.5th and 97.5th percentiles, the normal distribution was proved using Shapiro-Wilk test . Only mean ± SD were recalculated.
Normal distribution was proved by Kolmogorov-Smirnov test .
Normal distribution was proved by Shapiro-Wilk test .