Table 3.
Anthropometric and body composition (mean (SD)) comparison between women with and without tendon pathology.
| Normal Achilles n = 163 |
Abnormal Achilles n = 8 |
p value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age (years)† | 36.0 (10.3) | 47.4 (10.0) | 0.008 | |
| Menopause (pre:peri/post) | 142:21 | 3:5 | 0.002 | |
| Anthropometry | ||||
| Height (cm) | 166.8 (6.6) | 161.7 (6.1) | 0.046 | |
| Weight (kg) | 66.2 (9.3) | 59.1 (7.9) | 0.048 | |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 23.8 (3.2) | 22.6 (2.6) | 0.319 | |
| Waist (cm) | 77.0 (8.8) | 75.2 (5.3) | 0.596 | |
| Hip (cm) | 100.4 (6.8) | 95.6 (6.9) | 0.065 | |
| WHR‡ | 0.766 (0.065) | 0.789 (0.064) | 0.367 | |
| Fat | ||||
| Total (g)‡ | 21626 (7882) | 17196 (3173) | 0.009 | |
| Arms (g) | 1957 (882) | 1673 (423) | 0.399 | |
| Leg (g) | 8897 (3058) | 7436 (1484) | 0.211 | |
| Trunk (g)‡ | 10087 (4152) | 7367 (1662) | 0.003 | |
| Android (g)‡ | 1616 (811) | 1117 (324) | 0.005 | |
| Gynoid (g) | 4719 (1359) | 3815 (638) | 0.082 | |
| Fat Mass Ratio | ||||
| Android/Gynoid | 0.330 (0.107) | 0.298 (0.098) | 0.449 | |
| Upper-body/Lower-body | 1.346 (0.313) | 1.229 (0.237) | 0.330 | |
| Central/Peripheral | 0.922 (0.194) | 0.711 (0.321) | 0.004 | |
| Changes in other tendons (y:n)§ | 7:135 | 2:2 | 0.019 |
† - Variable not normally distributed, Mann-Whitney U test.
‡ - Normally distributed but significant difference in variance between groups.
§ - Expected cell count < 5, Fisher's Exact test.