Table 1 Sociodemographic and health characteristics of NUTRiMDEA participants distributed by sex and age, n (%).

From: Computational algorithm based on health and lifestyle traits to categorize lifemetabotypes in the NUTRiMDEA cohort

 

Overall

< 40 years

female

≥ 40 years

female

< 40 years

male

≥ 40 years

male

P sex

P age

P sex*age interaction

n

14,508

3456

5850

1538

3616

   

Ethnicity

     

< 0.001

< 0.001

0.24

 Caucasian / European

9753 (67.2)

2432 (70.4)

4065 (69.5)

1003 (65.2)

2231 (61.7)

   

 Hispanic / Latin

4311 (29.7)

894 (25.9)

1636 (28.0)

476 (30.9)

1301 (36.0)

   

 Other

444 (3.1)

130 (3.8)

149 (2.5)

59 (3.8)

84 (2.3)

   

 Education

     

< 0.001

< 0.001

0.002

 Primary and Compulsory education

1287 (8.9)

155 (4.5)

463 (7.9)

123 (8.0)

539 (14.9)

   

 University education

11,259 (77.6)

2910 (84.2)

4697 (80.3)

1135 (73.8)

2487 (68.8)

   

 Professional education

1779 (12.3)

336 (9.7)

620 (10.6)

261 (17.0)

560 (15.5)

   

 Other

183 (1.3)

55 (1.6)

70 (1.2)

19 (1.2)

30 (0.8)

   

Occupation

     

0.33

< 0.001

0.79

 Employed

11,188 (77.1)

2599 (75.2)

4604 (78.7)

1166 (75.8)

2787 (77.1)

   

 Unemployed

2439 (16.8)

361 (10.4)

1172 (20.0)

122 (7.9)

775 (21.4)

   

 Student

881 (6.1)

496 (14.4)

74 (1.3)

250 (16.3)

54 (1.5)

   

Home situation

        

 Alone

2934 (20.2)

713 (20.6)a

1122 (19.2)a

422 (27.4)b

660 (18.3)a

0.07

< 0.001

< 0.001

 Couple

8338 (57.5)

1764 (51.0)b

3506 (59.9)c

693 (45.1)a

2362 (65.3)d

0.002

< 0.001

< 0.001

 Children

5136 (35.4)

659 (19.1)a

2680 (45.8)c

308 (20.0)a

1482 (41.0)b

0.17

< 0.001

0.003

 Older

626 (4.3)

152 (4.4)a

245 (4.2)a

100 (6.5)b

126 (3.5)a

0.77

0.002

< 0.001

 Other

1190 (8.2)

691 (20.0)c

131 (2.2)a

270 (17.6)b

87 (2.4)a

< 0.001

< 0.001

0.15

 Obesity

928 (6.4)

141 (4.1)a

394 (6.7)b

91 (5.9)ab

302 (8.4)c

< 0.001

< 0.001

0.32

 Diabetes

456 (3.1)

45 (1.3)a

163 (2.8)b

36 (2.3)ab

212 (5.9)c

< 0.001

< 0.001

0.47

 HBP

1382 (9.5)

53 (1.5)a

540 (9.2)c

63 (4.1)b

725 (20.0)d

< 0.001

< 0.001

0.59

 Dyslipidemia

2316 (16.0)

206 (6.0)a

1066 (18.2)b

110 (7.2)a

930 (25.7)c

< 0.001

< 0.001

0.06

 Familial obesity

2626 (18.1)

662 (19.2)a

1016 (17.4)a

297 (19.3)a

650 (18.0)a

0.41

0.01

0.63

 Familial diabetes

4130 (28.5)

878 (25.4)a

1801 (30.8)b

386 (25.1)a

1053 (29.1)b

0.71

< 0.001

0.58

 Familial HBP

7020 (48.4)

1496 (43.3)b

3289 (56.2)d

565 (36.7)a

1650 (45.6)c

< 0.001

< 0.001

0.16

 Familial dyslipidemia

6369 (43.9)

1619 (46.8)b

2822 (48.2)b

557 (36.2)a

1353 (37.4)a

< 0.001

0.09

0.58

 Depress

5140 (35.4)

1624 (47.0)c

2057 (35.2)b

569 (37.0)b

869 (24.0)a

< 0.001

< 0.001

0.11

  1. Values are presented as frequency with percentages. To analyze significant differences between groups, data on sex and on age were assessed by the chi-square (χ2) test, and to analyze interactions between sex and age logistic regressions were employed for binary categorical data and multinomial logistic regressions were applied for polychotomous variables. Post-hoc analysis to identify specific group comparisons was conducted using the Sidak test. Threshold significance was set at P < 0.05. Mean differences are expressed with letters (abcd). HBP: high blood pressure. Ethnicity ‘Other’ included African, Asian, Mestizo, prefer not to specify and other. 48 participants preferred not to specify their sex.
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