TABLE 1.

Baseline characteristics of study participants.

	Exercisers, Mean (SD)	Controls, Mean (SD)
N	51	51
Age (yr)	56.2 (6.7)	56.6 (7.6)
Body mass index (kg·m−2)	29.7 (3.7)	30.1 (4.8)
Percent body fat (DEXA)	31.5 (6.4)	29.7 (6.0)
V̇O2max (mL·kg−1·min−1)	30.1 (5.9)	30.3 (6.7)
Steps per day	5967 (2778)	6180 (3236)
Total calories (kcal·d−1)	1692 (639)	1668 (566)
	N (%)	N (%)
Education: college degree or more Ethnicity	33 (64.7)	28 (54.9)
Non-Hispanic white	48 (94.1)	48 (94.1)
Asian/Pacific Islander	3 (5.9)	2 (3.9)
Other	0 (0)	1 (2.0)
Smoker	5 (9.8)	4 (7.8)
NSAID use
< 23 wk−1	29 (56.9)	29 (56.9)
≥ 23 wk−1	22 (43.1)	22 (43.1)

Two exercisers and one control are missing baseline DXA and FFQ. These participants are excluded from the analyses for these variables.