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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Decis Making. 2009 Aug 12;30(1):68–75. doi: 10.1177/0272989X09340583

Table 3.

Average Tolerable Risk Expressed as Percent for Weight Loss by Gender and Histograms of Skewness.

Average Risk of Death or SAE for Weight Loss
Females (n=63) Males (n=8)
% Wt Loss Mean
Death
Risk
Mean
SAE
Risk
Median

D/SAE
Skewness

D/SAE
Mean
Death
Risk
Mean
SAE
Risk
Median

D/SA E
Skewness

D/SA E
5 2.650 6.900 0.000/0.010 4.323/2.264 8.880 10.150 0.005/0.550 2.182/2.061
10 2.640 6.760 0.000/0.010 4.362/2.325 10.000 6.400 0.005/0.550 2.051/1.001