Occupation and metabolic syndrome: is there correlation? A cross sectional study in different work activity occupations of German firefighters and office workers

Table 1 Age and professional experience of the study population

	Firefighters				Office workers				Office worker vs. firefighter
	n	Mean	SD	Median	n	Mean	SD	Median	Estimated difference^a (95 %-CI) p value
Age (years)	97	40.5	9.0	41.0	46	45.8	10.0	48.0	5.30 (1.86 to 8.74) p = 0.003
Professional experience (years)	97	16.3	9.1	15.0	46	21.1	10.8	21.5	0.34 (−2.07 to 2.76) p = 0.779

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