. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 19.

Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2011 Jun 2;19(10):2031–2037. doi: 10.1038/oby.2011.135

Table 1.

Characteristics of the Framingham study sample (n=2,411)

Clinical variables	Mean ± standard deviation, or %
Age, years	60.8 ± 9.6
Women, %	52.6%
Body mass index at exam 7, kg/m²	28.2 ± 5.4
Diabetes Mellitus, %	9.7%
Blood fasting glucose at exam 7, mg/dl	105.5 ± 26.6
Hemoglobin A1C at exam 7, %	5.7 ± 1.0
Fasting insulin levels at exam 7, μU/ml	15.3 ± 11.0
Homa-IR at exam 7, mmol/L × μU/ml	4.2 ± 3.9