Background
Methods
Study areas
Study design
Measurements
Data analysis
Results
Characteristics of the population
SEX | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
All | Male | Female |
P-value
| |
(n = 201) | (n = 88) | (n = 113) | ||
Age N (%)
| 0.086 | |||
15-17 | 39 (19.4) | 23 (26.1) |
16 (14.2)
| |
18-20 | 67 (33.3) | 25 (28.4) | 42 (37.2) | |
21-24 | 95 (47.3) | 40 (45.5) | 55 (48.7) | |
Mean |
20.04
|
19.7
|
20.4
| |
Std. deviation |
2.667
|
2.754
|
2.570
| |
Education N (%)
| 0.002 | |||
No education | 8 (4.0) | 1 (1.1) | 7 (6.2) | |
Primary | 46 (22.9) | 11 (12.5) | 35 (31.0) | |
Middle/JHS | 86 (42.8) | 44 (50.0) | 42 (37.2) | |
Secondary + | 61 (30.3) | 32 (36.4) | 29 (25.7) | |
Alcohol-use N (%)
| 0.198 | |||
Never drinker | 98 (48.8) | 21 (23.9) | 56 (49.6) | |
Former drinker | 46 (22.9) | 25 (28.4) | 21 (18.6) | |
Current drinker | 57 (28.9) | 42 (42.7) | 36 (31.9) | |
Smoked tobacco N (%)
| 0.181 | |||
Never smoked | 172 (85.6) | 72 (81.8) | 100 (88.5) | |
Ever smoked | 29 (14.4) | 16 (18.2) | 13 (11.5) | |
Locality N (%)
| 0.579 | |||
Agbogbloshie | 36 (17.9) | 14 (15.9) | 22 (19.5) | |
James Town | 43 (21.4) | 17 (19.3) | 26 (23.0) | |
Ussher Town | 122 (60.7) | 57 (64.8) | 65 (57.5) | |
Employment status N (%)
| 0.002 | |||
Unemployed | 93 (46.3) | 30 (34.1) | 63 (55.8) | |
Employed | 108 (53.7) | 58 (65.9) | 50 (44.2) |
SEX | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
All | Male | Female |
P-value
| |
(n = 201) | (n = 88) | (n = 113) | ||
Mean Height (cm)
| 163.1 | 167.9 | 159.4 | 0.076 |
Std. deviation
|
8.730
|
8.584
|
6.845
| |
Mean Weight (kg)
| 60.5 | 61.1 | 60.0 | 0.080 |
Std. deviation
|
12.576
|
10.876
|
13.823
| |
BMI (kg/m
2
)
| 22.8 | 21.7 | 23.6 | 0.002 |
Std. deviation
|
4.863
|
3.963
|
5.327
| |
Overweight N (%)
| 26 (12.9) | 6 (6.8) | 20 (17.7) | |
Obese N (%)
| 17 (8.5) | 2 (2.3) | 15 (13.3) | |
Systolic BP (mmHg)
| 115.6 | 120.2 | 112.1 | 0.246 |
Std. deviation
|
12.709
|
13.780
|
10.573
| |
Diastolic BP (mmHg)
| 70.0 | 70.2 | 69.1 | 0.571 |
Std. deviation
|
8.092
|
8.125
|
8.069
| |
Pre-hypertension N (%)
| 65 (32.3) | 37 (42.0) | 28 (24.8) | 0.009 |
Hypertension N (%)
| 8 (4) | 6 (6.8) | 2 (1.8) | 0.069 |
Physical activity N (%)
| 0.000 | |||
No PA | 169 (84.1) | 62 (70.5) | 107 (94.7) | |
Moderate PA | 19 (9.5) | 14 (15.9) | 5 (4.4) | |
High PA | 13 (6.5) | 12 (13.6) | 1 (0.9) |
PA, BMI and BP levels
Systolic blood pressure | Diastolic blood pressure | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Characteristic | Male | Female | Male | Female | ||||||||
β | SE | P | β | SE | P | β | SE | P | β | SE | P | |
BMI | ***1.382 | 0.368 | 0.000 | ***0.793 | 0.195 | 0.000 | 0.308 | 0.230 | 0.184 | 0.245 | 0.154 | 0.113 |
No PA (REF) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
Moderate PA | −2.157 | 3.396 | 0.527 | −2.734 | 2.291 | 0.235 | −3.215 | 2.117 | 0.133 | −1.858 | 1.808 | 0.307 |
High PA | −3.787 | 4.939 | 0.446 | 9.933 | 10.036 | 0.325 | −4.702 | 3.079 | 0.131 | 6.920 | 7.923 | 0.384 |
Age | 0.108 | 0.625 | 0.863 | 0.342 | 0.443 | 0.441 | 0.606 | 0.389 | 0.124 | 0.409 | 0.350 | 0.245 |
Never smoker (REF) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
Smoker | −3.308 | 4.237 | 0.437 | 4.173 | 3.101 | 0.181 | 0.607 | 2.642 | 0.819 | −0.445 | 2.448 | 0.856 |
Never drinker (REF) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
Former drinker | −2.315 | 3.582 | 0.520 | 1.665 | 2.658 | 0.532 | 1.591 | 2.233 | 0.478 | 2.621 | 2.098 | 0.214 |
Current drinker | 0.487 | 3.967 | 0.903 | 1.366 | 2.317 | 0.557 | 0.490 | 2.473 | 0.844 | 0.875 | 1.829 | 0.633 |
Unemployed (REF) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
Employed | −3.749 | 3.516 | 0.290 | −0.558 | 2.202 | 0.800 | 0.399 | 2.192 | 0.856 | −1.243 | 1.738 | 0.476 |
No education (REF) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
Primary Educ. | −3.185 | 14.088 | 0.822 | 3.245 | 4.120 | 0.433 | 0.680 | 8.783 | 0.938 | −1.756 | 3.252 | 0.590 |
Middle/JHS | 1.837 | 13.763 | 0.894 | 3.664 | 4.077 | 0.371 | 4.723 | 8.580 | 0.584 | 0.276 | 3.218 | 0.932 |
Secondary + | 3.385 | 13.802 | 0.807 | 7.165 | 4.353 | 0.103 | 6.863 | 8.604 | 0.428 | 2.051 | 3.436 | 0.552 |
Ussher Town (REF) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
Agbogbloshie | −2.079 | 4.495 | 0.645 | 2.749 | 2.539 | 0.282 | 3.457 | 2.802 | 0.221 | **5.987 | 2.005 | 0.004 |
James Town | 1.278 | 3.793 | 0.737 | **5.120 | 2.441 | 0.039 | 0.893 | 2.365 | 0.707 | **3.834 | 1.927 | 0.049 |
Adjusted R
2
|
0.130
|
0.162
|
0.027
|
0.103
|