Table 3.

Metabolic characteristics and nutritional intake of study participating Korean elderly population

Values are presented as mean ± SD. The data were analyzed by independent t test. ^*Missing cases are 7 cases in carbohydrate, protein, lipid, Ca, P, iron, Na, K, vitamin A, vitamin C intake, 577 cases in HbA1c, 5 cases in fasting glucose, 3 cases in in insulin, total cholesterol, HDL, 571 cases in LDL, 124 cases in triglyceride, 109 cases in PTH, and 123 cases in vitamin D level; ^†Missing cases are 3 cases in carbohydrate, protein, lipid, Ca, P, iron, Na, K, vitamin A, vitamin C intake, 663 cases in HbA1c, 14 cases in fasting glucose, 13 cases in insulin, total cholesterol, HDL, 654 cases in LDL, 95 cases in triglyceride, 266 cases in PTH, and 200 cases in vitamin D level; ^‡Sarcopenic obesity in Koreans is defined as appendicular skeletal muscle mass divided by body weight (%) more than 2 SD below sex-specific young normal mean and waist circumference greater than the Korean abdominal obesity criteria (waist circumference ≥ 90 cm in men and ≥ 85 cm in women) from the Fourth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. SO, sarcopenic obesity; HbA1c, Glycated hemoglobin; HDL, high-density lipoprotein; LDL, low-density lipoprotein; PTH, parathyroid hormone.