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

Table 4 Factors influencing major diseases’ medical costs ^† among workers unit = KRW

Variables	Categories	Males (Medical cost)		Females (Medical cost)
		Model 1	Model 2	Model 1	Model 2
		β	β	β	β
Metabolic syndrome	No
	Yes	161,709	127,868	208,067	162,257
Size	≥300		3,994		7,102
	50-299		6,664		3,277
	<50
Job	White collar workers
Job	Blue collar workers		-8,653		-817
Age			7,610		4,048
Insurance premium	Q4		-33,512		-11,423
	Q3		-19,987		-856
	Q2		-11,502		-1,635
	Q1
Smoking	Non-smoker
	Ex-smoker		17,209		9,434
	Current		-11,883		5,622
Alcohol consumption			-8,436		-525
Exercise	≤2/wk
Exercise	≥3/wk		11,428		1,945
	R	0.15	0.26	0.25	0.32
	Adj R2	0.02	0.07	0.06	0.10
	F	65404.073	16454.867	84768.717	11796.780
	p	0.001	0.001	0.001	0.001

^†Major diseases considered for medical costs: cardiac disease, stroke, hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia.

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