Table 4 Prevalence of metabolic syndrome by age categories, smoking status, marital status, region and nationality among Jordanians using IDF definition, Jordan 2017
Variables | Men | P value* | Women | P value* | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No | Yes | No | Yes | |||
Number (%) | Number (%) | Number (%) | Number (%) | |||
Age (years) | Â | Â | <0.001 | Â | Â | <0.001 |
 18–29 | 133 (86.9) | 20 (13.1) |  | 506 (88.3) | 67 (11.7) |  |
 30–39 | 95 (53.4) | 83 (46.6) |  | 445 (72.5) | 169 (27.5) |  |
 40–49 | 132 (42.6) | 178 (57.4) |  | 364 (48.3) | 390 (51.7) |  |
 50–59 | 109 (37.2) | 184 (62.8) |  | 145 (26.7) | 399 (73.3) |  |
 60–69 | 51 (33.1) | 103 (66.9) |  | 36 (14.8) | 207 (85.2) |  |
 ≥ 70 | 37 (39.4) | 57 (60.6) |  | 16 (19) | 68 (81) |  |
Smoking status | Â | Â | <0.001 | Â | Â | 0.05 |
 No | 280 (47.6) | 308 (52.4) |  | 1413 (54.6) | 1174 (45.4) |  |
 Past | 68 (33.3) | 136 (66.7) |  | 20 (43.5) | 26 (56.5) |  |
 Current | 211 (53.8) | 181 (46.2) |  | 81 (43.5) | 105 (56.5) |  |
Marital status | Â | Â | <0.001 | Â | Â | <0.001 |
 Single | 126 (89.4) | 15 (10.6) |  | 380 (83.3) | 76 (16.7) |  |
 Married | 433 (41.5) | 610 (58.5) |  | 1134 (48) | 1229 (52) |  |
Region | Â | Â | <0.001 | Â | Â | <0.001 |
 North | 179 (46) | 210 (54) |  | 459 (50.4) | 451 (49.6) |  |
 Middle | 261 (55.8) | 207 (44.2) |  | 753 (58.5) | 534 (41.5) |  |
 South | 119 (36.4) | 208 (63.6) |  | 302 (48.6) | 320 (51.4) |  |
Nationality | Â | Â | 0.045 | Â | Â | 0.043 |
 Jordanian | 517 (46.7) | 591 (53.3) |  | 1422 (54.2) | 1204 (45.8) |  |
 Syrian | 41 (57.7) | 30 (42.3) |  | 81 (47.1) | 91 (52.9) |  |