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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 21.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Chem Lab Med. 2011 Mar 2;49(5):817–824. doi: 10.1515/CCLM.2011.122

Table 1.

Demographics of Study Participants by Percent Lean Mass Tail

Lower Upper

Mean SD Mean SD p-
value*

Age, years 58.91 2.77 59.33 2.24 0.672
Height, m 1.62 0.06 1.59 0.08 0.342
Weight, kg 97.34 16.35 56.71 5.36 <0.001
BMI, kg/m2 36.82 4.98 22.51 2.44 <0.001
Years of Estrogen Exposure 33.55 9.8 37.22 10.08 0.237
Years of Hormone Therapy 3.22 3.27 1.4 2.77 0.747
Waist to Hip Ratio, cm* 0.84 0.05 0.76 0.05 0.011
Energy, kcal 2008.66 894.37 2162.57 716.33 0.676
Total Lean Mass, kg 46.18 8.05 37.9 2.57 0.053
Total Fat Mass, kg 45.57 8.33 15.41 3.29 <0.001
Total % Fat 48.45 1.44 27.67 3.76 <0.001
Lean to Fat Ratio 1.02 0.06 2.55 0.52 <0.001
Appendicular Lean Mass, kg 19.04 4.08 15.58 1.72 0.074
Appendicular Fat Mass, kg 22.06 5.26 7.68 1.65 <0.001
Appendicular Lean to Fat Ratio 0.87 0.12 2.1 0.47 0.053
Appendicular Skeletal Muscle Index, kg/m2 7.18 1.22 6.17 0.61 0.035

Lower Upper
N % N % p-value

Smoking History 1.000
     Never 4 36.4 3 33.3
     Former 5 45.5 4 44.4
     Current 2 18.2 2 22.2
High Cholesterol 0.406
     No 5 45.5 6 66.7
     Yes 6 54.6 3 33.3
High Blood Pressure 0.218
     No 8 72.7 9 100.0
     Yes 3 27.3 0 0.0
Osteoarthritis 0.094
     No 7 63.4 9 100.0
     Yes 4 36.4 0 0.0
Osteoporosis 1.000
     No 10 90.9 9 100.0
     Yes 1 9.1 0 0.0
*

Statistical differences between groups was tested using Wilcoxon-rank sum test for continuous variables and Fisher's exact test for categorical variables.