Research Article

Occupational Noise Exposure and Diabetes Risk

Table 3

Associated factors to diabetes at the univariate analysis.

VariablesDiabetes
YesNo
N%N%

Gender
Man3413.222486.80.45
Woman49.14090.9

Marital status
Married2873.318268.90.55
Others1026.38231.1

Level of study
Primary25.33513.3
Secondary2463.211242.4
University1231.611744.3

Number of children
≤22360.518971.60.16
>21539.57528.4

Tobacco consumption
Yes2155.312648.60.44
No1744.713351.4

Alcohol consumption
Yes513.23386.80.73
No3386.823890.2

Physical activity
Yes718.49937.50.02
No3181.616562.5

Leisure activity
Yes410.55018.90.20
No3489.521481.1

Energy intake
Small and average eater1744.717566.30.01
Large eater2155.355.333.7

Obesity
Yes2155.310439.40.06
No1744.716060.6

Stress
Yes2257.99234.80.00
No1642.117265.2

Family history of diabetes
Yes19509134.50.06
No195017365.5

Noise
Yes2463.212748.10.08
No1436.813751.9

Mean ± SDMean ± SD
Median (min-max)Median (min-max)
Age (years)46 [26–60]42 [25–60]0.03
Job seniority (years)19 [2–37]10 [1–38]0.00

Not applicable test; SD: standard deviation.