The association of cardio-metabolic risk factors and history of falling in men with osteosarcopenia: a cross-sectional analysis of Bushehr Elderly Health (BEH) program

Table 1 Baseline characteristics of the participants by history of falling; Bushehr Elderly Health BEH) program

	Fall + N = 50	Fall – N = 291	P-value
Continuous Variable	Mean (SD)	Mean (SD)	–
Age, year	75.9 (7.9)	72.9 (7.3)	0.007
Education^a, Year	6 (1–10)	6 (0–10)	0.849
Systolic Blood Pressure, mmHg	132.1 (16.0)	141.1 (21.3)	0.005
Body Mass Index, kg/m^2	24.0 (3.9)	23.9 (3.3)	0.848
Waist Circumference, cm	92.3 (12.2)	91.9 (10.3)	0.799
Fasting Plasma Glucose^a, mg/dl	91.5 (81.3–131.8)	88 (82–100)	0.423
Categorical variables	N (%)	N (%)	–
Current smoking	9 (18.0)	72 (24.7)	0.301
Diabetes	19 (38.0)	80 (27.6)	0.134
Hypertension	34 (68.0)	204 (70.1)	0.765
Hypertriglyceridemia	6 (12.0)	71 (24.4)	0.053
Hypercholesterolemia	12 (24.0)	70 (24.1)	0.993
Low HDL-Cholesterol	19 (38.0)	107 (36.8)	0.868
Physical activity	5 (10.0)	41 (14.1)	0.611

- Diabetes was defined as FPG ≥ 126 mg/dl, or HbA1C ≥ 6.5 or taking anti-diabetic medication
- Hypercholesterolemia was defined as total cholesterol ≥200 mg/dl
- Low HDL-Cholesterol was defined as HDL-C < 40 mg/dl
- Hypertriglyceridemia was defined as triglyceride ≥150 mg/dl
^a Due to not normal distribution, median (25th–75th percentile) was reported and p-value was estimated using non-parametric test

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