Prevalence rates % (95% confidence intervals), age adjusted by direct standardisation to the total sample, of high plasma homocysteine (>14.0 μmol/l) and low plasma folate (<6.8 nmol/l), for Indians (I), Malays (M), and Chinese (C), by gender, for age group 30 to 69 years
| Indians (men=129, women=119) | Malays (men=104, women=106) | Chinese (men=136, women=132) | Significance, p value | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I v M | I v C | M v C | |||||||
| Homocysteine (>14.0 μmol/l) | |||||||||
| Men | 60.0 (51.5, 68.5) | 53.9 (44.4, 63.5) | 56.6 (48.2, 64.9) | 0.35 | 0.58 | 0.68 | |||
| Women | 21.9 (14.6, 29.2) | 37.8 (28.6, 47.1) | 30.6 (22.7, 38.5) | <0.01 | 0.11 | 0.24 | |||
| Folate (<6.8 nmol/l) | |||||||||
| Men | 44.9 (36.3, 53.4) | 45.3 (35.7, 54.9) | 31.4 (23.6, 39.2) | 0.95 | 0.02 | 0.03 | |||
| Women | 36.6 (27.9, 45.2) | 24.5 (16.3, 32.7) | 12.6 (6.9, 18.3) | 0.05 | 0.02 | 0.13 | |||