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. 2016 May 17;38(3):57. doi: 10.1007/s11357-016-9921-2

Table 1.

Participants characteristics

Young Older Main effect Interaction effect
Male Female Male Female Age Sex
YM (n = 11) YF (n = 13) OM (n = 11) OF (n = 9) p value p value Age × sex
p value
Age (year) 23.7 ± 4.2 23.5 ± 3.4 66.8 ± 3.4 66.1 ± 4.4 <0.001 0.685 0.850
Stature (m) 1.80 ± 0.08 1.69 ± 0.07 1.77 ± 0.07 1.66 ± 0.05 0.150 <0.001 0.969
Body mass (kg) 81.2 ± 11.7 65.3 ± 12.9 82.6 ± 7.7 61.7 ± 7.7 0.742 <0.001 0.438
BMI (kg/m2) 25.2 ± 3.1 22.7 ± 4.0 26.5 ± 2.6 22.3 ± 2.3 0.637 <0.01 0.366

Values are mean ± SD

YM young males, YF young females, OM older males, OF older females, n number of participants