Association between Lifestyle Factors and Metabolic Syndrome among African Americans in the United States

Table 2

Predictive factors for metabolic syndrome among African American men using weighted estimates: from the NHANES 1999–2006^∗.

	ORunadj (95% CI)	ORadj (95% CI)
Age	1.05 (1.04–1.06)	1.05 (1.04–1.06)
Marital status
Married	1.00	1.00
Single	0.61 (0.44–0.83)	0.85 (0.55–1.31)
Education
Less than high school	1.00	1.00
High school	0.82 (0.51–1.31)	0.84 (0.48–1.47)
College graduate	0.81 (0.53–1.23)	0.75 (0.47–1.21)
Income
<$20,000	1.00	1.00
$20,000–44,900	1.34 (0.88–2.02)	1.38 (0.88–2.16)
$45,000 or above	1.56 (1.04–2.34)	1.65 (0.92–2.97)
Alcohol drinking
Nondrinkers	1.00	1.00
Moderate drinkers	0.96 (0.62–1.50)	1.13 (0.68–1.85)
Heavy drinkers	0.63 (0.41–0.98)	0.83 (0.48–1.45)
Cigarette smoking
Nonsmoker	1.00	1.00
Light smoker	0.56 (0.31–1.01)	0.68 (0.36–1.27)
Heavy smoker	0.70 (0.40–1.24)	0.69 (0.39–1.22)
Physical activity
Inactive	1.00	1.00
Low activity	0.86 (0.44–1.71)	1.10 (0.51–2.39)
Medium activity	0.70 (0.40–1.23)	0.97 (0.51–1.84)
High activity	0.62 (0.37–1.04)	0.94 (0.49–1.81)

^∗Any results with statistical significance with 𝑃<0.05 are indicated in bold.