Table 2 Descriptive Statistics of qualitative clinical and biochemical characteristics of the study population.
Variable Name | Abbreviation | Levels | N (%) | P-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Diabetes | Diabetes | < 126 | 3818 (85.1) | 0.140* |
> = 126 | 668 (14.9) | |||
Obesity | Obesity | < 30 | 3096 (69.0) | 0.035** |
> = 30 | 1390 (31.0) | |||
Gender | Gender | Male | 1818 (40.5) | 0.917 |
Female | 2668 (59.5) | |||
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | Pulmonary | No | 4067 (90.7) | 0.130* |
Yes | 419 (9.3) | |||
Autoimmune disease | Autoimmune | No | 4385 (97.7) | 0.107* |
Yes | 101 (2.3) | |||
Hypertension disease | HTN | HTN- | 3006 (67.0) | 0.092* |
HTN+ | 1480 (33.0) | |||
Education level | Education | Low | 2507 (55.9) | 0.014** |
Moderate | 1476 (32.9) | |||
High | 503 (11.2) | |||
Job status | Job | Student | 7 (0.2) | 0.006** |
Employment | 1626 (36.2) | |||
Un-employment | 2389 (53.3) | |||
Retired | 464 (10.3) | |||
Marital status | Marriage | Single | 28 (0.6) | 0.440 |
Married | 4160 (92.7) | |||
Divorced | 62 (1.4) | |||
Widow | 236 (5.3) | |||
Smoking status | Smoking | Non-smoker | 3060 (68.2) | 0.085* |
Ex-smoker | 443 (9.9) | |||
Current-smoker | 983 (21.9) |
