Basic Anthropometric Measures in Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients and Individually Sex- and Age-Matched Controls from the General Population

Table 2

Anthropometric measures: means (SD) and signed relative difference ((case-control)/control) in per cent between myocardial infarction cases and their matched controls.

	Weight (kg)	Height (cm)	BMI	Waist (cm)	Hip (cm)	Waist/hip
Men ≤65 yr;
Cases	88.9 (15.6)	177.3 (6.9)	28.2 (4.4)	100.8 (11.5)	103.1 (8.3)	0.98 (0.07)
Controls	85.9 (11.9)	178.8 (6.5)	26.8 (3.2)	99.9 (9.6)	105.1 (5.5)	0.95 (0.06)
P	0.017	0.008	<0.001	>0.20	0.001	<0.001
Signed relative difference	+3.5	−0.8	+5.2	+1.0	−1.9	+3.2
Men ≥66 yr;
Cases	81.6 (14.4)	175.2 (6.9)	26.5 (4.0)	98.8 (10.4)	100.9 (7.7)	0.98 (0.06)
Controls	82.5 (11.8)	176.1 (6.9)	26.6 (3.5)	100.8 (9.8)	105.6 (6.2)	0.95 (0.06)
P	>0.20	0.138	>0.20	0.023	<0.001	<0.001
Signed relative difference	−1.1	−0.6	−0.5	−2.0	−4.5	+3.2
Women ≤65 yr;
Cases	73.4 (16.7)	162.9 (5.9)	27.6 (6.0)	92.7 (14.6)	105.3 (12.6)	0.88 (0.07)
Controls	71.5 (12.7)	164.1 (5.7)	26.5 (4.4)	90.4 (13.3)	105.6 (9.4)	0.85 (0.07)
P	>0.20	>0.20	>0.20	>0.20	>0.20	0.014
Signed relative difference	+2.7	−0.7	+4.2	+2.5	−0.3	+3.5
Women ≥66 yr;
Cases	73.3 (15.7)	162.2 (6.2)	27.9 (6.4)	95.0 (13.6)	105.6 (12.2)	0.90 (0.07)
Controls	69.8 (13.2)	161.8 (6.0)	26.6 (4.6)	90.6 (12.1)	105.5 (10.6)	0.86 (0.07)
P	0.038	>0.20	0.048	0.006	>0.20	<0.001
Signed relative difference	+5.0	+0.2	+4.9	+4.9	0.0	+4.7

value refers to the case-control difference.