Research Article
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) |
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