. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 1.

Published in final edited form as: Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2013 Jan;65(1):62–70. doi: 10.1002/acr.21810

Table 2.

Body composition characteristics of sample

	Total	Men	Women	P
BMI, mean ± SD	27.1 ± 6.0	28.6 ± 6.6	26.2 ± 5.4	.02
Obese by BMI≥30, % (n)	28.4 (40)	41.1 (23)	20.0 (17)	.008
Obese by waist circumference, % (n)	33.8 (47)	36.4 (20)	32.1 (27)	.71
% Total fat from DXA, mean ± SD	40.3 ± 8.7	39.9 ± 9.5	40.5 ± 8.2	.68
% Trunk fat¹, mean ± SD	20.6 ± 5.4	21.0 ± 5.3	20.4 ± 5.5	.53
% Appendicular fat², mean ± SD	18.4 ± 4.7	17.7 ± 5.7	18.9 ± 4.0	.17
% Appendicular lean mass³, mean ± SD	25.2 ± 4.1	26.0 ± 4.3	24.7 ± 3.8	.08
Obese by DXA, % (n)	58.2 (82)	80.4 (45)	43.5 (37)	<.0001

percent of total mass from trunk fat (trunk fat/total mass)

percent of total mass from appendicular fat

percent of total mass from appendicular lean mass