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Table 1 Participants’ characteristics and metabolic syndrome components in pre and postmenopausal overweight women

From: Association of abdominal fat with metabolic syndrome components in overweight women: effect of menopausal status

 

PreM (n = 76)

PostM (n = 87)

p value

Age (years)

42.1 ± 5.9

65.2 ± 4.5

< 0.001

Height (cm)

157.4 ± 5.3

154.3 ± 5.4

< 0.001

Weight (kg)

68.2 ± 6.4

65.2 ± 7.1

0.006

%fat (%)

39.5 ± 7.2

39.3 ± 7.2

0.861

BMI (kg/m2)a

1.44 ± 0.04

1.44 ± 0.04

0.844

WC (cm)

93.9 ± 7.5

94.3 ± 8.4

0.776

SBP (mmHg)

127 ± 15

132 ± 17

0.072

DBP (mmHg)

80 ± 11

83 ± 9

0.045

MAP (mmHg)

96.4 ± 11.5

99.3 ± 11.7

0.119

TC (mg/dl)

210.8 ± 35.9

230.7 ± 28.8

< 0.001

HDLC (mg/dl)

62.6 ± 12.9

60.9 ± 13.1

0.407

LDLC (mg/dl)

131.2 ± 32.5

148.0 ± 28.2

0.001

TG (mg/dl)a

1.91 ± 0.19

2.00 ± 0.19

0.006

FPG (mg/dl)

91.3 ± 7.8

93.6 ± 7.1

0.047

  1. Values indicate mean ± SD
  2. PreM pre-menopausal overweight women, PostM post-menopausal overweight women, BMI body mass index; WC waist circumference, SBP systolic blood pressure, DBP diastolic blood pressure, MAP mean artery pressure, TC total cholesterol, HDLC high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, LDLC low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, FPG fasting plasma glucose, TG triglycerides
  3. aThe values were transformed log
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Journal of Physiological Anthropology

ISSN: 1880-6805

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