Table 2.

Adiposity Measures for Active Versus Inactive^a Subjects Stratified by Sex, Age, Race/Ethnicity; the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, 2000–2002

	Active	Inactive	P-value
BMI, kg/m2 (± SE)
Sex
Male	27.7 ± 0.09	28.6 ± 0.16	< .0001
Female	28.3 ± 0.12	29.9 ± 0.20	< .0001
Age
< 55	28.6 ± 0.15	29.3 ± 0.26	.02
55–64	28.4 ± 0.15	29.9 ± 0.25	< .0001
65–74	27.7 ± 0.13	29.5 ± 0.23	< .0001
≥ 75	26.8 ± 0.17	27.9 ± 0.29	.002
Race/ethnicity
White	27.4 ± 0.11	29.1 ± 0.22	< .0001
Chinese American	24.0 ± 0.14	24.0 ± 0.22	.97
African American	29.8 ± 0.16	31.2 ± 0.26	< .0001
Hispanic	29.1 ± 0.16	30.0 ± 0.23	.001
Waist circumference, cm (± SE)
Sex
Male	98.7 ± 0.25	101.3 ± 0.45	< .0001
Female	96.0 ± 0.31	100.2 ± 0.51	< .0001
Age
< 55	96.2 ± 0.40	98.8 ± 0.69	.0008
55–64	97.8 ± 0.39	101.2 ± 0.65	< .0001
65–74	98.0 ± 0.36	102.4 ± 0.62	< .0001
≥ 75	97.1 ± 0.48	100.1 ± 0.83	.002
Race/ethnicity
White	96.9 ± 0.31	102.3 ± 0.64	< .0001
Chinese American	87.4 ± 0.41	86.4 ± 0.66	.18
African American	100.1 ± 0.39	104.2 ± 0.66	< .0001
Hispanic	99.9 ± 0.41	102.1 ± 0.58	.002

^aSelf-reported physical activity in the lowest quartile (0–105 MET-minutes/wk) was categorized as inactive with the upper three quartiles (123–37,260 MET-minutes/wk) categorized as active.