. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Community Health. 2014 Jun;39(3):471–479. doi: 10.1007/s10900-013-9780-z

Table 2.

Anthropometry in survey participants from the 2011 Los Angeles Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (n=947), by race/ethnicity.

Race/Ethnicity	n	Mean (SD)
Race/Ethnicity	n	BMI, kg/m²	WC, cm	WHR	WHtR
African American/Black	333	29.31 (7.15)	93.91 (16.36)	0.86 (0.08)	0.55 (0.09)
Asian	80	26.02 (5.31)	86.94 (13.17)	0.87 (0.07)	0.53 (0.07)
Hispanic/Latino	324	30.49 (6.49)	96.51 (14.62)	0.90 (0.06)	0.59 (0.09)
White/Non-Hispanic	155	27.00 (5.84)	91.03 (15.30)	0.87 (0.08)	0.53 (0.09)
Native American/Alaska Native	4	30.72 (3.17)	97.22 (13.06)	0.89 (0.08)	0.56 (0.05)
Mixed	47	28.07 (6.25)	90.57 (14.68)	0.86 (0.07)	0.54 (0.09)
P-value^*		<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001

BMI: Body Mass Index (kg/m²).

WC: Waist circumference.

WHR: Waist-to-hip ratio.

WHtR: Waist-to-height ratio.

SD: Standard deviation.

P-value for analysis of variance (ANOVA).

Totals exclude missing values. Number of survey participants excluded from this analysis, n=10.