Table 5.
Anthropometry measurements of study participants, by gender and age group. Simple linear regression p-values are shown across age groups.
| Age group | P-value | ||||||
| Near-old | Young-old | Old-old | |||||
| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||
| Weight (kg) | |||||||
| Males | 54.0 | 11.1 | 53.2 | 8.2 | 47.3 | 6.0 | 0.037 |
| Females | 50.3 | 10.7 | 43.4 | 7.3 | 41.5 | 7.5 | 0.004 |
| All | 52.0 | 10.9 | 47.1 | 8.9 | 44.6 | 7.2 | 0.004 |
| Height (cm) | |||||||
| Males | 160.3 | 5.9 | 159.2 | 5.9 | 157.5 | 3.6 | 0.168 |
| Females | 150.0 | 4.6 | 151.2 | 4.1 | 148.4 | 4.3 | 0.479 |
| All | 154.7 | 7.3 | 154.2 | 6.2 | 153.2 | 6.1 | 0.394 |
| BMI (kg/m2) | |||||||
| Males | 20.9 | 3.6 | 21.1 | 3.7 | 19.1 | 2.7 | 0.188 |
| Females | 22.3 | 4.0 | 19.0 | 3.2 | 18.6 | 3.3 | 0.003 |
| All | 21.7 | 3.8 | 19.8 | 3.5 | 18.9 | 3.0 | 0.006 |