Factors Associated with Metabolic Syndrome and Related Medical Costs by the Scale of Enterprise in Korea

Table 1 General characteristics and health behaviors of workers by the scale of enterprise %

Variables	Male			Female
	<50	50-299	300≤	<50	50-299	300≤
	n = 1,002,756	n = 757,923	n = 1,065,060	n = 534,410	n = 309,725	n = 424,343
Job
Blue collar	61.2	73.8	76.5	51.0	66.6	69.1
Age (years)
Mean ± SD	42.5 ± 11.4	40.7 ± 11.1	40.0 ± 9.6	39.7 ± 11.1	39.7 ± 11.6	34.7 ± 10.6
Insurance premiums
Q4	15.5	25.9	68.3	3.5	5.3	22.3
Q3	32.8	38.6	20.0	11.3	22.0	31.9
Q2	31.0	20.0	7.4	35.2	41.9	24.7
Q1	20.7	15.5	4.4^*	49.9	30.9	21.1^*
Smoking
Non-smoker	27.5	26.6	30.5^*	95.6	95.3	92.0^*
Ex-smoker	22.7	21.6	25.6	1.9	1.9	3.5
Current	49.8	51.8	43.9	2.5	2.8	4.4
Alcohol consumption
Non-drinker	0.4	1.0	0.8^*	0.7	1.6	1.9^*
1-2/wk	58.0	59.6	59.5	89.0	87.3	84.4
3-4/wk	32.5	32.6	34.5	9.2	10.0	12.2
≥5/wk	9.1	6.9	5.1	1.1	1.1	1.5
Exercise
≤3/wk	29.0	31.1	35.3	25.4	24.0	22.9
No. of metabolic syndrome factors
0	29.3	31.5	32.9^*	46.9	48.7	58.8^*
1	30.9	30.9	30.5	29.5	28.8	25.8
2	22.6	21.7	20.6	14.2	13.7	9.9
3	12.2	11.4	11.6	6.5	6.2	4.0
4	4.4	3.9	3.7	2.4	2.3	1.3
5	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.3
Metabolic syndrome	17.2	15.9	15.9	9.4	8.9	5.5

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