Assessing Factors Related to Waist Circumference and Obesity: Application of a Latent Variable Model

Table 1

Descriptive characteristics of waist circumference and obesity across study variable levels.

Variables	Waist circumference		Obesity			value
	Mean	SD	No	Percent	Total
Age
20–29	82.86	12.36	254	11.5	2206	<0.001
30–39	87.56	12.66	926	20.2	4584
40–49	91.22	13.26	1284	26.3	4888
50–59	93.04	13.43	1312	26.2	5006
60+	92.85	13.63	532	23.1	2306
Gender
Male	89.52	12.90	1245	13.6	9130	<0.001
Female	90.53	14.06	3063	31.1	9860
PR
Urban	91.66	13.39	2792	26.1	10706	<0.001
Rural	87.96	13.41	1516	18.3	8284
Physical activity
Low	91.02	14.03	1919	26.8	7159	<0.001
Moderate	90.41	13.15	1028	23.0	4475	0.061
Heavy	88.87	13.15	1361	18.5	7356	<0.001
Smoking
Nonsmoker	87.27	13.03	297	10.8	2760	<0.001
Smoker	90.52	13.55	4011	24.7	16230
SBP
Normal	88.66	13.24	3031	20.3	14906	<0.001
High	95.11	13.33	1277	31.3	4084
DBP
Normal	88.71	13.26	2951	19.7	14975	<0.001
High	95.03	13.33	1357	33.8	4015
CHOL
Normal	87.94	13.31	2143	18.1	11825	<0.001
High	93.52	13.16	2165	30.2	7165
FBG
Normal	89.54	13.42	3850	21.8	17672	<0.001
High	96.79	13.03	458	34.7	1318
Diabetes
Yes	97.23	12.02	499	35.4	1409	<0.001
No	89.47	13.47	3809	21.7	1758
FHD
Yes	92.68	13.24	1207	29.6	4076	<0.001
No	89.32	13.51	3101	20.8	14914