Parent-offspring association of metabolic syndrome in the Framingham Heart Study

Table 3 Characteristics of the participant by metabolic syndrome status in the Framingham Heart Study (N = 1193)

	Metabolic syndrome (N = 466)	No metabolic syndrome (N = 727)	P value^a
Age	55.06 (8.62)	51.63 (9.42)	<0.001
Sex %			<0.01
Men	52.1	44.3
Women	47.9	55.7
Education status %			<0.01
High school	41.8	33.2
College	43.8	43.6
More than college	14.4	23.2
Number of years of school completed	13.80 (2.06)	14.31 (2.15)	<0.001
Income level %			0.39
< $20,000,	38.5	36.8
$20,000- $44,000	49.8	48.2
$45,000 or higher	11.7	15.0
Smoked cigarettes regularly last year %^b	24.3	19.4	<0.05
Alcohol consumption %^c	64.2	76.1	<0.001
Physical activity score^d	34.67 (6.53)	35.09 (6.04)	0.27

Data are mean (SD) or percentage of subjects.
^aIndependent t test or Chi-square test.
^bSmokers if they had smoked regularly in the previous year.
^cAlcohol use was dichotomized on the basis of consumption of at least one drink per week.
^dCalculated based on the average daily number of hours of sleep and sedentary, slight, moderate, and heavy activity of the participant.

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