Table 1 Demographics of populations from UK Biobank and Health Promotion Center in Korea
From: Different effects of cardiometabolic syndrome on brain age in relation to gender and ethnicity
Variables | Korea | UK | p-value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|  | Females ( n  = 2599) | Males ( n  = 2942) | Total ( n  = 5541) | Females ( n  = 5167) | Males ( n  = 4736) | Total ( n  = 9903) |  |
Age (years)a | 63.2 ± 6.9 | 64.7 ± 6.5 | 64.0 ± 6.7 | 63.4 ± 7.1 | 63.8 ± 7.4 | 63.6 ± 7.2 | 0.007 |
Hypertension (n, %)b | 965 (37.1%) | 1402 (47.7%) | 2367 (42.7%) | 1813 (35.1%) | 2208 (46.6%) | 4021 (40.6%) | 0.1 |
T2DM (n, %)b | 273 (10.5%) | 683 (23.2%) | 956 (17.3%) | 365 (7.1%) | 602 (12.7%) | 967 (9.8%) |  < 0.001 |
BMI (kg/m2)a | 23.5 ± 2.9 | 24.5 ± 2.6 | 24.0 ± 2.8 | 26.8 ± 5.2 | 27.7 ± 4.4 | 27.2 ± 4.9 |  < 0.001 |
Obesity (n, %) | 227 (8.7%) | 336 (12.4%) | 593 (10.7%) | 450 (8.7%) | 336 (7.1%) | 786 (7.9%) |  < 0.001 |
Underweight (n, %)b | 70 (2.7%) | 32 (1.1%) | 102 (1.8%) | 49 (0.9%) | 7 (0.1%) | 56 (0.6%) |  < 0.001 |