Journal of Diabetes Research

Research Article

Characterization of Metabolically Healthy Obese People and Metabolically Unhealthy Normal-Weight People in a General Population Cohort of the ABCD Study

Table 1

Demographic characteristics of the ABCD cohort compared with those of the general population living in Palermo.


	General population of Palermo in 2011^a			ABCD cohort in 2011			^b	ABCD cohort in 2015			^c
	19–59 years	60–90 years	Total	18–59 years	60–90 years	Total	^b	18–59 years	60–90 years	Total	^c

Class of age	357443 (70.3%)	150700 (29.7%)	508143	843 (68.9%)	381 (31.1%)	1224	0.28	676 (65.3%)	360 (34.7%)	1036	0.07
Gender							<0.001				0.21
Male	172593 (34.0%)	64267 (12.6%)	236860 (46.6%)	263 (21.4%)	197 (16.1%)	460 (37.6%)		234	182	416 (40.2)
Female	184850 (36.4%)	86433 (17.0%)	271283 (53.4%)	580 (47.4%)	184 (15.1%)	764 (62.4%)		442	178	620 (59.8)
Marital status							<0.001				0.46
Single	133031 (26.2%)	13552 (2.7%)	146583 (28.9%)	191 (15.8%)	21 (1.7%)	212 (17.5%)		169 (16.3%)	14 (1.4%)	183 (17.7%)
Married	213080 (41.9%)	95755 (18.8%)	308855 (60.0%)	595 (49.3%)	306 (25.3%)	901 (74.6%)		471 (45.5%)	301 (29.1%)	772 (74.5%)
Divorced	6719 (1.3%)	3305 (0.7%)	10024 (2.0%)	12 (1.0%)	35 (2.9%)	47 (3.9%)		25 (2.4%)	13 (1.3%)	38 (3.7%)
Widow/er	4613 (1.0%)	38068 (7.4%)	42681 (8.4%)	11 (0.9%)	31 (2.6%)	42 (3.5%)		11 (1.1%)	32 (3.1%)	43 (4.1%)
Education^b							<0.001				0.39
0 years	5972 (1.0%)	7693 (1.3%)	13666 (2.3%)	2 (0.2%)	6 (0.5%)	8 (0.7%)		1 (0.1%)	1 (0.1%)	2 (0.2%)
0–5 years	64988 (11.3%)	89067 (15.5%)	154055 (26.8%)	56 (4.6%)	112 (9.3%)	168 (13.9%)		9 (0.9%)	87 (8.4%)	96 (9.3%)
6–8 years	100878 (17.5%)	92354 (16.0%)	193232 (33.5%)	302 (25.0%)	122 (10.1%)	424 (35.1%)		206 (19.9%)	115 (11.1%)	321 (31%)
9–13 years	75285 (13.1%)	79443 (13.8%)	154728 (26.9%)	354 (29.3%)	92 (7.6%)	446 (36.9%)		326 (31.5%)	107 (10.3%)	433 (41.8%)
>13 years	29429 (5.1%)	30306 (5.3%)	59735 (10.4%)	117 (9.7%)	44 (3.7%)	161 (13.4%)		134 (12.9%)	50 (4.8%)	184 (17.8%)
Unemployed^d			22000 (4.3%)			58 (4.8%)	0.07			56 (5.4%)	0.47

values were obtained with the χ² test; ^ahttp://www.tuttitalia.it/sicilia/81-palermo/statistiche/popolazione-eta-sesso-stato-civile-2015/ (accessed on December 30, 2015); ^bABCD cohort in 2011 versus general population of Palermo in 2011; ^cABCD cohort in 2015 versus 2011; ^ddata relative to general population of Palermo (range of age 19–90 years) in 2001 (http://www.comune.palermo.it/opendata_dld.php?id=105 accessed on 30 December 2015).