. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Apr 1.

Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2010 Mar 18;18(10):1875–1880. doi: 10.1038/oby.2010.56

Table 1.

Anthropometric characteristics of participants

Variable	Men (n = 12)	Women (n = 20)	P value
Age, y	28.9 (8.7)	30.3 (8.1)	0.6
Body weight, kg	77.4 (7.7)	58.9 (6.9)	0.0001
BMI kg/m2	23.8 (2.1)	23.7 (5.3)	0.9
Total fat
Mass, kg	14.1 (3.1)	17.7 (3.9)	0.01
Percent of body weight	19.0 (3.7)	32.5 (5.8)	0.0001
Lower-body fat
Mass, kg	5.4 (1.4)	7.2 (1.6)	0.003
% of total fat mass	37.2 (4.2)	41.1 (4.1)	0.1
Upper-body subcutaneous fat
Mass, kg	7.2 (1.6)	9.4 (2.2)	0.006
Percent of total fat mass	52.5 (3.2)	53.2 (4.0)	0.2
Visceral fat
Mass, kg	1.4 (0.7)	1.0 (0.7)	0.1
% of total fat mass	10.1 (3.3)	5.6 (3.2)	0.0007
CT area, cm²	49.4 (26.4)	26.5 (18.3)	0.007

Values are mean (SD). BMI – body mass index; CT – computed tomography.