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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2010 May;42(5):971–976. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3181c29e90

Table 1.

Participant characteristics overall and by sex groups

Age Groups (y) Sample Size Height ± SD (cm) Body Mass ± SD (kg) BMI ± SD (kg.m−2)
 All Subjects (18–73) 116 170.1 ± 9.19 75.9 ± 17.60 26.1 ± 5.44

Men
 18–29 11 178.6 ± 8.59 78.4 ± 18.23 24.4 ± 3.76
 30–39 10 178.3 ± 5.24 82.5 ± 13.12 25.9 ± 3.69
 40–49 9 177.8 ± 5.45 84.8 ± 19.13 26.9 ± 6.15
 50–59 11 178.3 ± 8.48 87.4 ± 12.60 27.5 ±3.39
 60–73 8 174.8 ± 4.21 83.4 ± 8.05 27.3 ±2.33

Women
 18–29 15 163.2 ± 6.09 66.3 ± 21.25 24.3 ± 7.29
 30–39 13 166.4 ± 6.36 67.7 ± 12.07 27.6 ± 3.98
 40–49 12 165.4 ± 5.42 74.4 ± 20.04 25.9 ± 7.71
 50–59 10 165.2 ± 4.81 70.8 ± 16.14 28.4 ± 6.60
 60–73 16 162.5 ± 6.97 72.8 ± 18.07 24.7 ± 5.81

Body mass index (BMI) is calculated by dividing weight in kilograms by height in meters squared (kg.m−2)