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Table 2 Demographic and anthropometric factors in subjects with and without metabolic syndrome and acanthosis nigricans

From: Prevalence of Acanthosis Nigricans in an urban population in Sri Lanka and its utility to detect metabolic syndrome

Variable

Acanthosis nigricans (subjects with metabolic syndrome n = 1025)

Acanthosis nigricans (subjects without metabolic syndrome n = 1924)

 

Present

Absent

p value

Present

Absent

p value

 

n = 296 (28.9)

n = 729 (71.1)

 

n = 217 (11.3)

n = 1707 (88.7)

 

Age

51.8 (7.4)

54.6 (7.0)

< 0.001

49.4 (7.8)

52.0 (8.0)

< 0.001

Males

94 (31.8)

239 (33.0)

0.71

111 (51.2)

899 (52.5)

0.72

BMI

28.4 (4.0)

25.5 (3.4)

< 0.001

27.2 (3.8)

22.4 (3.8)

< 0.001

Waist

95.3 (8.5)

90.3 (8.6)

< 0.001

92.0 (9.4)

81.2 (9.6)

< 0.001

WHR

0.97 (0.07)

0.96 (0.07)

< 0.001

0.96 (0.07)

0.92 (0.07)

0.02