High Prevalence of Overweight/Obesity in Urban Sri Lanka: Findings from the Colombo Urban Study

Table 1

Study group characteristics.

	Both sexes; ()	Males; ()	Females; ()
Mean age (SD)	50.4 (14.8)	50.9 (15.8)	50.2 (14.3)
Ethnicity
Sinhala	320 (69.1%)	108 (75.5%)	212 (66.2%)
Tamil	56 (12.1%)	12 (8.4%)	44 (13.8%)
Moor	83 (17.9%)	23 (16.1%)	60 (18.8%)
Other	4 (0.8%)	—	4 (1.2%)
Education
Below grade 5	77 (16.7%)	10 (7.1%)	67 (20.6%)
Up to O/L	240 (51.9%)	77 (53.8%)	163 (51.1%)
Up to A/L	127 (27.5%)	47 (32.9%)	80 (25.1%)
Above A/L	18 (3.9%)	9 (6.2%)	9 (2.8%)
Tobacco smoking
No	396 (85.6%)	83 (58.0%)	313 (97.9%)
Current smokers	40 (8.6%)	34 (23.8%)	6 (1.8%)
Exsmokers	27 (5.8%)	26 (18.2%)	1 (0.3%)
Alcohol consumers
No	370 (79.9%)	58 (40.6%)	312 (97.5%)
Current consumers	71 (15.3%)	64 (44.7%)	7 (2.2%)
Exconsumers	22 (4.8%)	21 (14.7%)	1 (0.3%)
Diabetes
No	155 (33.5%)	45 (31.4%)	110 (34.4%)
Prediabetes	150 (32.4%)	43 (30.1%)	107 (33.4%)
Diabetes	158 (34.1%)	55 (38.5%)	103 (32.2%)
Family history of diabetes	199 (43.0%)	64 (44.8%)	135 (42.2%)
Family history of hypertension	209 (45.1%)	67 (46.9%)	142 (44.4%)
Family history of dyslipidaemia	117 (25.3%)	31 (21.7%)	86 (26.9%)
Mean total cholesterol (SD)	210.3 (47.8)	205.1 (40.3)	212.7 (50.7)
Mean low-density lipoprotein (SD)	124.8 (43.1)	118.5 (35.3)	127.7 (45.9)
Mean high-density lipoprotein (SD)	59.2 (8.0)	59.0 (8.1)	59.3 (8.0)
Mean triglyceride (SD)	135.3 (64.7)	144.8 (66.7)	131.1 (63.4)
Mean HbA1c (SD)	6.4 (1.7)	6.5 (1.6)	6.4 (1.8)
Mean TSH (SD)	2.5 (7.1)	1.0 (4.1)	2.7 (8.2)
Mean calcium level (SD)	2.2 (0.1)	2.2 (0.01)	2.2 (0.1)
Mean vitamin D level (SD)	20.6 (7.0)	23.2 (8.2)	19.5 (6.1)
Mean waist circumference (SD)	87.0 (±13.0)	87.5 (±12.9)	86.8 (±13.0)
Mean BMI (SD)	25.2 (±4.8)	24.1 (±4.4)	25.7 (±4.8)