. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 28.

Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2007 May;15(5):1287–1293. doi: 10.1038/oby.2007.150

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics

	Birmingham (n = 200)	Houston (n = 259)	Minneapolis (n = 182)	Philadelphia (n = 204)	All participants (n = 845)
Women N (%)	120 (60.0%)*	168 (64.9%)*	85 (46.7%)†	133 (65.2%)*	506 (59.9%)
Age (yrs) [mean (SD)]	59.4 (6.4)	59.7 (6.7)	60.9 (6.4)	59.7 (6.6)	59.9 (6.9)
BMI (kg/m²) [mean (SD)]	35.5 (6.2)*	37.3 (6.5)†	36.2 (6.2)*†	36.3 (5.5)*†	36.4 (6.2)
White	138 (69%)*	157 (60.6%)†	165 (90.7%)‡	109 (53.4%)†	569 (67.3%)
Black	58 (29%)	50 (19.3%)	13 (7.1%)	86 (42.1%)	207 (24.5%)
Hispanic	1 (0.5%)	38 (14.7%)	0 (0%)	1 (0.5%)	40 (4.7%)
All others	3 (1.5%)	14 (5.4%)	4 (2.1%)	8 (4%)	29 (3.4%)

SD, standard deviation. Groups with different symbols differ at p < 0.05 or less using χ² analyses for sex and race and using ANOVA with Bonferonni corrections for BMI. Age did not differ across sites. Sums may not add to 100% in “Race” because of rounding error.