Table 1.

Characteristics of study participants enrolled in the expanded Jamaican reproducibility and validation / calibration ^a study

	Samples
	Dietary intakes		Biomarker a
	Males	Females
n	31	39	176
Age (years): mean ± sd	40.9 ± 16.5	41.5 ± 16.8	61.6 ± 10.5†
Weight (kg): mean ± sd	77.9 ± 13.4	77.5 ± 20.6	74.8 ± 14.1
Height (m): mean ± sd	172.7 ± 6.6	161.6 ± 7.8**	171.6 ± 7.2
Body mass index (kg/m2)	26.1 ± 4.0	29.7 ± 8.1*	25.3 ± 4.4
Obesity (BMI≥30.0 kg/m2) (%)	14.3	34.2	14.8

^a Control population enrolled in the diet and prostate cancer study.

*p < 0.05; **p < 0.0001; genders significantly different

^† Males in biomarker and dietary samples significantly different.