. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 25.

Published in final edited form as: Int J Obes (Lond). 2007 Apr 24;31(9):1384–1391. doi: 10.1038/sj.ijo.0803624

Table 2.

Comparison of truncal fat and total body fat among four ethnic groups in 1192 women

Ethnic groups	Caucasian (CA) N = 522	African American (AA) N = 384	Hispanic American (HA) N = 178	Asian (As) N = 108	P-value
Age (years)	46.1 (17.5)	48.3 (17.7)	48.4 (15.7)	46.6 (20.1)	0.19^†
Body height (cm)	162.75 (6.75)	162.81 (6.86)	155.78 (6.32)^b ^d	157.47 (6.30)^c ^e	<0.001^†
Weight scale (kg)	71.25 (16.41)	79.39 (16.16)^a	68.80 (13.60)^d	55.07 (8.90)^c ^e ^f	<0.001^†
Body mass index (kg/m²)	26.97 (6.36)	29.92 (5.70)^a	28.35 (5.38)^b ^d	22.17 (3.04)^c ^e ^f	<0.001^†
DXA scale (kg)	70.69 (16.38)	78.86 (16.25)^a	68.14 (13.66)^d	54.45 (9.01)^c ^e ^f	<0.001^†
Truncal fat (kg)	12.00 (6.56)	14.23 (5.67)^a	13.33 (4.86)^d	8.24 (3.39)^c ^e ^f	<0.001^†
Truncal fat (kg)	12.69 (0.10)	12.16 (0.12)^a	12.70 (0.17)^d	13.32 (0.23)^c ^e ^f	<0.001^‡
Total body fat (kg)	25.86 (13.04)	31.35 (11.44)	26.93 (9.86)^b ^d	16.31 (6.10)^f	<0.001^†
Total body fat (kg)	27.23 (0.17)	27.13 (0.21)	25.67 (0.30)^b ^d	26.76 (0.40)^f	<0.001^‡
Body fat (%)	34.51 (10.96)	38.43 (8.66)	38.43 (7.86)^b ^d	29.27 (7.18)^c ^e	<0.001^†
Body fat (%)	35.58 (0.22)	35.31 (0.26)	37.43 (0.37)^b ^d	36.80 (0.50)^c ^e	<0.001^‡

Data are expressed as mean (s.d.) for

^†

ANOVA or age and BMI-adjusted mean (s.e.m.) for

^‡

ANCOVA; statistical significance (P<0.05) between ethnic groups:

= CA versus AA,

= CA versus HA,

= CA versus As,

= AA versus HA,

= AA versus As,

= HA versus As. BMI, body mass index; DXA, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry.