Table 1.
Social and demographic variables of study subjects.
Table 2.
Age-adjusted prevalence of lifestyle and cardiometabolic risk factors in the study cohort.
Table 3.
Age- and sex-adjusted prevalence of risk factors among low, middle and high socioeconomic status groups, occupational classes and educational groups (numbers, %).
Figure 1.
Prevalence of risk factors (smoking/tobacco use, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome) in different educational status (ES) subjects.
Prevalence of ≤1 risk factor is significantly greater in high educational status group while prevalence of ≥3 risk factors more in low educational status group (p<0.01).
Figure 2.
Age- and sex-adjusted odds ratios for prevalence of lifestyle risk factors in high, middle and low educational, occupational and socioeconomic groups.
There is significantly greater prevalence of smoking/tobacco use, low physical activity, low fruit and vegetable intake and high waist-hip ratio among the medium and lower status groups as compared to high (p<0.05). Prevalence of high fat dietary intake and overweight/obesity is greater among the higher status group.
Figure 3.
Age- and sex-adjusted odds ratios for prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors in high, middle and low educational, occupational and socioeconomic groups.
There is significantly greater prevalence of hypertriglyceridemia and low HDL cholesterol among the low educational (top panel), occupational (middle panel) and socioeconomic status (lower panel) subjects while metabolic syndrome is more in the low occupational classes (p<0.05). Prevalence of hypercholesterolemia is more in higher groups while that of other risk factors similar.
Table 4.
Age-adjusted correlation of various indices of socioeconomic status (Kendall’s tau-B).