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Published in final edited form as: Int J Obes (Lond). 2015 Sep 22;40(3):411–416. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2015.190

Table 1.

Descriptive characteristics of the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) and Women's Health Initiative (WHI) samples. Mean and standard deviation are shown.

	FHS (N=7,318)	WHI (N=4,756)

	European Americans	African Americans (N=3,214)	Hispanic Americans (N=1,542)
Age	45.35±10.91	61.38±7.01	60.23±6.84
Sex (% female)	52%	100%	100%
BMI (kg/m²)	26.86±5.25	30.09±6.40	28.13±5.63
Sitting time (hours/day) ^*	6.63±3.27	6.80±3.72	5.86±3.36
Smoking (% smokers)	20.5%	49.5%	35.5%
rs9939609 (% A allele)	41%	47%	31%

^*

Inferred from categorical variable in WHI sample (see Methods)