Effectiveness of a community-based intervention for weight loss on cardiometabolic risk factors among overweight and obese women in a low socio-economic urban community: findings of the MyBFF@home

Table 1 Baseline anthropometric and cardiometabolic characteristics of participants in the MyBFF@home study

Characteristics	Control (n = 114)	Intervention (n = 129)	p-value^a
Age, years	41.98 (7.97)	42.38 (7.89)	0.70
BMI, kg/m²	30.80 (4.10)	31.68 (4.14)	0.10
Family history of T2DM %(n)	47 (42.0)	62 (48.8)	0.29
Family history of hypertension %(n)	52 (46.4)	77 (60.2)	0.03
Family history of CVD %(n)	19 (17.3)	30 (23.6)	0.23
Cardiometabolic Risk Factors
FPG, mmol/L	5.64 (1.03)	5.63 (1.45)	0.95
TC, mmol/L	5.70 (1.09)	5.59 (1.02)	0.44
LDL-C, mmol/L	4.59 (1.32)	4.44 (1.11)3	0.33
HDL-C, mmol/L	1.38 (0.23)	1.31 (0.23)	0.02
Triglycerides, mmol/L	1.35 (0.66)	1.35 (0.67)	1.00
LDL-C/HDL-C ratio	3.35 (0.91)	3.43 (0.86)	0.46
TC/HDL-C ratio	4.15 (0.71)	4.30 (0.71)	0.09

Note: Data are presented as mean (standard deviation) or % (number of participant)
Boldface indicates statistically significance
ª Determined with independent t-test for continuous variables and χ² test for categorical variables, significant at p-value < 0.05
Abbreviations: BMI body mass index, CVD cardiovascular disease, FPG fasting plasma glucose, TC total cholesterol LDL-C low density lipoprotein-cholesterol, HDL-C high density lipoprotein-cholesterol

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