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Table 2 General information of the six-year follow-up cohort

From: Dynamic development of metabolic syndrome and its risk prediction in Chinese population: a longitudinal study using Markov model

Variables

Baseline

1-year follow-up

2-year follow-up

3-year follow-up

4-year follow-up

5-year follow-up

p*

(N = 21,777)

(N = 19,330)

(N = 11,226)

(N = 8652)

(N = 7918)

(N = 4776)

Age (years)

43.98 ± 12.36

44.72 ± 12.36

45.57 ± 11.62

47.28 ± 11.86

48.47 ± 11.35

49.96 ± 11.31

< 0.0001

Sex (male)

14,250 (65.44%)

12,504 (64.69%)

7522 (67.00%)

5432 (62.76%)

4918 (62.11%)

3086 (64.61%)

< 0.0001

Overweight or obesity

8964 (41.16%)

8312 (43.00%)

5031 (44.82%)

3732 (43.13%)

3542 (44.73%)

2174 (45.52%)

< 0.0001

Hypertension

6267 (28.78%)

7125 (36.86%)

4781 (42.59%)

4025 (46.52%)

3864 (48.86%)

2478 (51.88%)

< 0.0001

Dyslipidemia

8168 (37.51%)

8208 (42.46%)

4880 (43.47%)

3906 (45.15%)

4301 (54.32%)

2927 (61.29%)

< 0.0001

Hyperglycemia

2297 (10.55%)

2530 (13.09%)

1780 (15.86%)

1516 (17.52%)

1555 (19.64%)

1019 (21.34%)

< 0.0001

MS

3289 (15.10%)

3852 (19.93%)

2632 (23.45%)

2328 (26.90%)

2361 (29.82%)

1564 (32.75%)

< 0.0001

  1. The mean ± standard deviations and percentages were used to express the normally distributed continuous variables and the categorical variables, respectively
  2. * p for each row testing the null hypothesis that values for 6 years were equal