Characteristic | Glucose tolerance (n = 1234) | p | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Normal (n = 832) | IFG (n = 200) | DM (n = 202) | |||||
Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | ||
Sex | |||||||
 Male | 437 | 75.7% | 93 | 10.2% | 98 | 14.1% | 0.236 |
 Female | 395 | 66.6% | 107 | 18.2% | 104 | 15.2% |  |
Age category | < 0.001 a | ||||||
 35 to 39 Years | 152 | 84.6% | 23 | 10.6% | 11 | 4.8% | |
 40 to 44 Years | 164 | 74.7% | 28 | 13.0% | 29 | 12.3% | |
 45 to 49 Years | 142 | 71.4% | 36 | 12.6% | 39 | 16.0% | |
 50 to 54 Years | 124 | 62.9% | 38 | 18.6% | 40 | 18.6% | |
 55 to 59 Years | 136 | 58.0% | 47 | 18.5% | 43 | 23.4% | |
 60 to 64 Years | 114 | 66.9% | 28 | 14.4% | 40 | 18.7% | |
Ethnicity | |||||||
 Sinhalese | 554 | 71.2% | 130 | 14.4% | 156 | 14.4% |  |
 Tamil | 208 | 60.6% | 50 | 10.4% | 23 | 29.0% |  |
 Muslim | 69 | 68.5% | 19 | 11.6% | 22 | 20.0% | 0.003 |
 Other | 01 | 91.5% | 01 | 3.3% | 01 | 05.2% |  |
Sector | |||||||
 Urban | 224 | 58.6% | 68 | 17.8% | 90 | 23.6% |  |
 Rural | 397 | 69.9% | 83 | 14.6% | 88 | 15.5% | 0.001 a |
 Plantation | 211 | 74.3% | 49 | 17.3% | 24 | 08.5% |  |
Education category | |||||||
 No schooling | 35 | 73.8% | 07 | 9.8% | 06 | 16.4% |  |
 Grade 5 or below | 199 | 76.5% | 53 | 10.9% | 31 | 12.6% |  |
 Grade 6 to 10 | 274 | 70.5% | 56 | 13.4% | 78 | 16.1% | 0.019 a |
 O/L to Grade 12 | 190 | 72.9% | 49 | 15.3% | 45 | 11.8% |  |
 AL and above | 91 | 66.9% | 25 | 15.8% | 31 | 17.3% |  |
Occupation category | |||||||
 Professional | 07 | 97.5% | 02 | 1.0% | 03 | 1.4% |  |
 Technical & clerical | 38 | 72.3% | 11 | 15.3% | 12 | 12.4% |  |
 Vendors & sellers | 82 | 60.0% | 23 | 14.3% | 31 | 25.6% | 0.175 |
 Skilled manual workers | 160 | 84.8% | 24 | 7.9% | 21 | 7.2% |  |
 Unskilled manual workers | 181 | 74.8% | 36 | 14.3% | 23 | 10.8% |  |
 Retired | 35 | 60.2% | 15 | 19.7% | 14 | 20.1% |  |
 Unemployed | 40 | 70.6% | 8 | 6.5% | 11 | 22.9% |  |
 Housewife | 257 | 65.5% | 76 | 18.1% | 82 | 16.4% |  |
Income Category (per month) | |||||||
 < 10,000 | 293 | 73.2% | 66 | 12.4% | 53 | 14.3% |  |
 10,000 to 30,000 | 440 | 70.3% | 107 | 14.5% | 113 | 15.1% | 0.005 a |
 > 30,000 | 74 | 64.7% | 23 | 19.2% | 35 | 16.1% |  |
Social status index | |||||||
 1st quintile | 158 | 66.3% | 38 | 16.3% | 47 | 17.4% |  |
 2nd quintile | 153 | 71.1% | 39 | 14.5% | 51 | 14.5% |  |
 3rd quintile | 158 | 73.2% | 39 | 12.0% | 45 | 14.7% | 0.006 a |
 4th quintile | 163 | 71.7% | 38 | 14.7% | 42 | 13.6% |  |
 5th quintile | 182 | 76.1% | 43 | 16.9% | 17 | 7.0% |  |
UBNI | |||||||
 1 | 80 | 91.0% | 07 | 4.7% | 08 | 4.3% |  |
 2 | 119 | 93.6% | 34 | 1.4% | 13 | 5.0% |  |
 3 | 176 | 70.8% | 44 | 16.9% | 28 | 12.3% | <  0.001 a |
 4 | 214 | 71.6% | 46 | 13.6% | 64 | 14.7% |  |
 5 | 243 | 63.3% | 69 | 16.0% | 89 | 20.7% |  |