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. 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 5.

Anthropometry and cigarette smoking behaviors in non-cases from the 2011 Los Angeles Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (n=937).

Women - BMI Men - BMI Women -WC Men - WC
χ2* t-test mean (SD) t-test* χ2* t-test mean (SD) t-test * χ2* t-test mean (SD) t-test * χ2 * t-test mean (SD) t-test*
Current Smoker
Yes 0.703 26.2 (5.97) 0.591 0.224 27.5 (5.54) 0.116 0.962 84.5 (14.9) 0.619 0.002 93.0 (13.2) 0.032
No 26.9 (5.84) 26.9 (4.94) 0.109 86.7 (13.5) 90.4 (11.2)

BMI: Body mass index (kg/m2) – underweight, normal weight, overweight, obese.

WC: Waist circumference (cm) – low risk, high risk.

SD: standard deviation.

*

P-value.

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