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

Table 4

Four-year incidence^a rate of cardiometabolic risk factors according to baseline abdominal obesity status (𝑛=366).

Risk factors	Overall incidence (%)	Specific incidence
		Obese (%)	Non obese (%)	𝑃 value^b
High BP^c	8.1	13.3	6.3	0.149
High fasting glycemia^d	17.7	22.4	15.5	0.121
Diabetes^d	3.0	4.9	2.1	0.236
Insulin resistance^d	30.7	39.7	27.4	0.051
Low HDL-C	30.2	36.4	27.7	0.164
High TC/HDL-C	18.6	29.2	14.3	0.002
High triglyceride	8.4	10.8	7.1	0.229

^aNumber of new cases divided by the total number of subjects without the risk factor at baseline.
^b𝑃-values for χ ² test.
^cIncludes new cases under treatment for hypertension (𝑛=7).
^dIncludes new cases under treatment for diabetes (𝑛=2).