Four-Year Trends in Cardiometabolic Risk Factors according to Baseline Abdominal Obesity Status in West-African Adults: The Benin Study

Table 2

Baseline cardiometabolic risk factors according to anthropometric status (𝑛=366).

Risk factors (%)	All	Abdominal obesity			Overall overweight/obesity
		Yes	No	𝑃 value	Yes	No	𝑃 value^a
Women (𝑛=188)		(𝑛=91)	(𝑛=97)		(𝑛=100)	(𝑛=88)
High blood pressure	36.7	46.2	27.8	<0.001	44.0	28.4	0.026
High fasting glycemia	10.0	13.2	7.2	0.132	9.1	11.8	0.426
Insulin resistance	33.0	42.9	23.7	0.005	41.0	21.6	0.004
Low HDL-C	31.4	37.4	28.5	0.060	41.0	20.5	0.002
High TC/HDL-C	19.1	25.3	13.4	0.030	29.0	8.0	<0.001
High TG	1.1	1.1	1.0	0.732	1.0	1.1	0.718
No CMR factor^b	28.2	16.6	39.2	<0.001	19	38.6	<0.001
Men (𝑛=178)		(𝑛=32)	(𝑛=146)		(𝑛=44)	(𝑛=134)
High blood pressure	35.1	65.6	28.8	<0.001	52.3	29.9	0.006
High fasting glycemia	7.9	12.5	6.8	0.228	6.7	11.4	0.243
Insulin resistance	19.1	34.4	15.8	0.015	36.4	13.4	<0.001
Low HDL-C	21.1	37.5	18.5	0.020	38.6	16.4	0.003
High TC/HDL-C	10.1	34.4	4.8	<0.001	29.5	3.7	<0.001
High TG	2.8	6.2	2.1	0.220	6.8	1.5	0.098
No CMR factor^b	37.1	6.2	43.8	<0.001	13.6	44.8	<0.001

^a𝑃 value for χ ²  test.
^bCardiometabolic risk factors (CMR) other than abdominal or overall overweight/obesity.