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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2013 Nov;61(11):1971–1975. doi: 10.1111/jgs.12444

Table 1.

Baseline Participant Characteristics.

Mean (±SD)/Median
(25%, 75%)a
Gender (N, % women) 48 (100)
Age (years) 69.6 (±8.5)
Weight (kg) 88.2 (78.9 – 100.7)
BMI (kg/m2) (N=39)b 34.9 (31.5 – 40.2)
Race/Ethnicity (N, % of Total)
  African American 47 (98%)
  Latina 1 (2%)

Abbreviation: BMI, Body Mass Index; kg, kilograms; m, meters.

a

Mean(±SD) reported for data with normal distribution. Median (25th – 75th percentile) reported for data with non-normal distribution.

b

N= 48 for table, except for BMI where N=39 because height was not available for all participants.