Table 10.6
C-reactive protein, by minority ethnic group
| Aged 16 and over with
a valid sample |
|
|
|
|
|
1999 |
|
| C-reactive
protein (mg/l) |
Minority ethnic group
|
|
|
General
population
(1998)a |
| |
Black |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
Caribbean |
Indian |
Pakistani |
Bangladeshi |
Chinese |
Irish |
|
| Men |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Observed |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Mean |
2.5 |
3.2 |
2.6 |
2.5 |
1.9 |
3.0 |
3.0 |
| Standard error of the mean |
0.29 |
0.41 |
0.36 |
0.27 |
0.49 |
0.27 |
0.09 |
| Median |
1.1 |
1.4 |
1.3 |
1.1 |
0.6 |
1.4 |
1.4 |
| % >3.7b |
14.6 |
19.0 |
14.2 |
15.0 |
7.2 |
20.5 |
20.0 |
|
| Standardised |
| % >3.7b (risk
ratio) |
0.74 |
1.10 |
0.96 |
1.11 |
0.60 |
1.19 |
1 |
| Standard error of the ratio |
0.12 |
0.12 |
0.14 |
0.21 |
0.19 |
0.17 |
|
|
| Women |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Observed |
| Mean |
2.8 |
3.4 |
4.0 |
3.1 |
2.4 |
3.9 |
3.6 |
| Standard error of the mean |
0.24 |
0.27 |
0.31 |
0.33 |
0.47 |
0.32 |
0.08 |
| Median |
1.4 |
1.8 |
2.1 |
1.3 |
0.8 |
1.7 |
1.7 |
| % >4.9b |
14.7 |
18.6 |
28.5 |
16.3 |
6.8 |
19.9 |
19.6 |
|
| Standardised |
| % >4.9b (risk
ratio) |
0.81 |
1.06 |
2.02 |
1.32 |
0.55 |
0.99 |
1 |
| Standard error of the ratio |
0.11 |
0.12 |
0.19 |
0.22 |
0.16 |
0.11 |
|
|
|
| Bases (weighted): |
| Men |
201 |
365 |
178 |
53 |
45 |
965 |
a |
| Women |
252 |
353 |
164 |
44 |
54 |
1264 |
a |
|
| Bases (unweighted): |
| Men |
285 |
387 |
304 |
199 |
141 |
332 |
4938 |
| Women |
368 |
374 |
282 |
176 |
170 |
440 |
5502 |
|
a Comparative data for the general population are not available
on this topic from the 1999 survey itself, and for this table comparative
data have therefore been taken from the 1998 survey, in which no weighting
was involved.
b The general population top quintile.
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