The Pan African Medical Journal (Sep 2011)

Rural and urban differences in metabolic profiles in a Cameroonian population

  • Clarisse Noel Ayina Ayina Lissock,
  • Eugene Sobngwi,
  • Eliane Ngassam,
  • Laurent Serge Etoundi Ngoa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2011.10.1.629
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1

Abstract

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< 0.001 respectively). However, total Cholesterol (TC) and LDL-c were significantly higher in urban than in rural men (p<0.001 and p=0.005) and women (p <0.001 respectively). Diabetes� rate in this population was 6.6%. This rate was higher in the rural (8.3%) than in the urban area (6.0%). Age and RHR were significantly higher in diabetic women than in non-diabetics (p=0.007; p=0.032 respectively). In a multiple regression, age was an independent predictor of SBP, DBP and RHR in the entire population. Age predicted blood glucose in rural women only. BMI, WC and BF% were independent predictors of RHR in rural population, especially in men. WC and BF% predicted DBP in rural men only. Anthropometric parameters did not predict the lipid profile.

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