The discriminative ability of the triglyceride-glucose index to identify metabolic syndrome among adults of the northern Sri Lankan population

Table 3 Baseline characteristics in the triglyceride-glucose index quartiles among the study population

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	P-value
Participant number	135	135	135	135
Age (Years)	37.04 ± 12.63	43.33 ± 12.44	45.19 ± 13.84	47.55 ± 10.71	0.000^**
BMI (kg/m²)	21.26 ± 4.36	22.50 ± 4.75	24.64 ± 5.26	25.44 ± 4.69	0.000^**
WC (cm)	88.45 ± 8.64	91.08 ± 9.70	94.65 ± 10.46	96.39 ± 9.93	0.000^**
SBP (mmHg)	116.43 ± 11.14	122.00 ± 12.61	125.87 ± 14.90	130.27 ± 14.30	0.000^**
DBP (mmHg)	75.69 ± 6.97	77.73 ± 8.46	80.56 ± 9.18	82.59 ± 8.57	0.000^**
FPG (mmol/L)	4.50 ± 0.69	4.79 ± 0.88	5.34 ± 0.96	6.11 ± 1.68	0.000^**
TG (mmol/L)	0.76 ± 0.18	1.13 ± 0.25	1.50 ± 0.32	2.22 ± 0.52	0.000^**
TC (mmol/L)	4.76 ± 0.78	5.25 ± 0.92	5.32 ± 0.95	5.59 ± 1.00	0.000^**
HDL-C (mmol/L)	1.34 ± 0.23	1.34 ± 0.28	1.24 ± 0.25	1.15 ± 0.25	0.000^**
LDL-C (mmol/L)	2.75 ± 0.65	3.11 ± 0.72	3.21 ± 0.71	3.37 ± 0.78	0.000^**

Q1 Quartile 1, Q2 Quartile 2, Q3 Quartile 3 and Q4 Quartile 4
^*Statistically significant difference across Triglyceride- glucose index quartiles

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