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Published in final edited form as: Am J Hum Biol. 2012 Mar 20;24(4):551–557. doi: 10.1002/ajhb.22269

TABLE 1.

Sample characteristics

	American Samoa		Samoa
	Male (Mean [SD])	Female (Mean [SD])	Male (Mean [SD])	Female (Mean [SD])
N	123	114	90	109
Age (years)	14.90 (1.9)	14.68 (1.8)	14.76 (1.8)	14.83 (1.8)
BMI (kg/m²)	25.85 (6.9)	28.44 (7.4)^**	21.05 (3.2)^‡	23.04 (3.8)^**^,‡
Abdominal circumference (cm)	87.22 (16.1)	88.71 (14.2)^**	74.23 (8.2)^‡	79.25 (10.1)^**^,‡
Triglycerides (mmol/L)	1.34 (1.4)	1.12 (0.5)	0.83 (0.3)^†	0.96 (0.4)^*,†
HDL-cholesterol (mmol/L)	1.07 (0.3)	1.10 (0.2)	1.28 (0.3)^‡	1.30 (0.3)^‡
SBP (mm Hg)	113.43 (12.6)	110.75 (10.9)^**	110.78 (10.6)^‡	107.77 (9.1)^**^,‡
DBP (mm Hg)	72.59 (10.7)	71.49 (9.7)^**	68.31 (8.7)^‡	70.90 (6.8)^**^,‡
Fasting glucose (mmol/L)	4.53 (0.6)	4.49 (0.6)	4.70 (0.5)	4.73 (0.4)^‡
BMI classification
Normal (n [%])	58 (47.2)	31 (27.2)	71 (78.9)	68 (62.4)
Overweight (n [%])	20 (16.3)	42 (36.8)	17 (18.9)	34 (31.2)
Obese (n [%])	45 (36.6)	41 (36.0)	2 (2.2)	7 (6.4)

ANCOVA between sex (within location) with age as a covariate.

^*

P < 0.05,

^**

P < 0.01.

ANCOVA between location (within sex) with age as a covariate.

^†

P < 0.05,

^‡

P < 0.01.