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Table 2 Metabolic syndrome and metabolic syndrome component prevalence in subjects when classified in accordance to their genotype of the FTO rs9939609 T>A polymorphism

From: Association between the FTO rs9939609 polymorphism and the metabolic syndrome in a non-Caucasian multi-ethnic sample

 

TT

AA & AT

OR (95% CI)

P-value

Overall N = 2121

1482

639

  

IDF MetS (%)

31.2

35.8

1.23 (1.01, 1.50)

0.036

   South Asian

36.8

49.1

1.66 (1.06, 2.58)

0.027

   Chinese

24.6

22.4

0.89 (0.46, 1.69)

0.71

   Oji-Cree

48.9

51.9

1.13 (0.63, 2.03)

0.68

   Greenland Inuit

23.9

29.4

1.33 (0.99, 1.77)

0.051

NCEP ATP III MetS (%)

21.1

25.2

1.26 (1.02, 1.57)

0.036

   South Asian

28.3

35.8

1.42 (0.88, 2.27)

0.15

   Chinese

18.5

22.4

1.27 (0.65, 2.46)

0.48

   Oji-Cree

36.2

40.4

1.19 (0.66, 2.17)

0.56

   Greenland Inuit

13.3

18.2

1.44 (1.02, 2.04)

0.037

MetS BP (%)

30.3

33.2

1.14 (0.94, 1.39)

0.19

   South Asian

35.5

33.0

0.89 (0.56, 1.41)

0.62

   Chinese

32.8

40.3

1.39 (0.79, 2.43)

0.25

   Oji-Cree

27.6

19.2

0.63 (0.30, 1.30)

0.20

   Greenland Inuit

29.7

34.0

1.22 (0.93, 1.60)

0.16

MetS Triglycerides (%)

25.0

26.5

1.08 (0.87, 1.34)

0.47

   South Asian

46.1

46.8

1.03 (0.67, 1.60)

0.89

   Chinese

38.8

31.3

0.72 (0.40, 1.29)

0.27

   Oji-Cree

33.1

40.4

1.37 (0.76, 2.49)

0.30

   Greenland Inuit

12.7

13.3

1.05 (0.72, 1.54)

0.79

MetS HDL (%)

33.7

39.6

1.29 (1.07, 1.56)

0.0089

   South Asian

69.1

71.7

1.13 (0.70, 1.83)

0.61

   Chinese

51.7

61.2

1.47 (0.85, 2.56)

0.17

   Oji-Cree

45.7

59.6

1.75 (0.97, 3.17)

0.061

   Greenland Inuit

15.3

16.4

1.09 (0.77, 1.53)

0.64

MetS Glucose (%)

45.3

47.7

1.10 (0.92, 1.33)

0.30

   South Asian

25.7

34.1

1.50 (0.93, 2.43)

0.098

   Chinese

17.2

20.9

1.27 (0.64, 2.50)

0.49

   Oji-Cree

53.5

44.2

0.69 (0.38, 1.24)

0.21

   Greenland Inuit

54.1

60.2

1.28 (0.99, 1.66)

0.059

MetS Waist (IDF) (%)

60.9

65.0

1.19 (0.98, 1.44)

0.080

   South Asian

64.5

75.1

1.67 (1.03, 2.69)

0.036

   Chinese

34.9

32.8

0.91 (0.51, 1.62)

0.75

   Oji-Cree

81.0

78.9

0.87 (0.43, 1.79)

0.71

   Greenland Inuit

58.9

64.0

1.24 (0.95, 1.61)

0.11

BMI>33 kg/m2 (%)

8.1

10.6

1.35 (0.99, 1.84)

0.060

   South Asian

4.0

5.8

1.48 (0.53, 4.18)

0.45

   Chinese

2.2

1.5

0.69 (0.079, 5.99)

0.73

   Oji-Cree

13.5

26.9

2.36 (1.19, 4.68)

0.012

   Greenland Inuit

8.3

12.4

1.57 (1.04, 2.36)

0.032