. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 1.

Published in final edited form as: Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2017 Apr;69(4):561–566. doi: 10.1002/acr.22954

Table 1.

Baseline Characteristics of Participants without Gout at Baseline in MRFIT According to BMI Category

	BMI Category
	Normal (<25 kg/m²) N=2539	Overweight (25-29.9 kg/m²) N=6586	Obese (≥30 kg/m²) N=2771
Age, Mean ± SD	46.7±6.0	46.4±5.9	45.8±6.0
Education (Completed College), %	28.2	28.1	23.9
Alcohol Intake, %
0/day	8.1	7.4	7.7
≤1/day	34.4	37.3	42.1
>1/day	57.5	55.3	50.2
Coffee Intake, %
0/day	18.0	18.0	19.9
≤1/day	13.4	12.6	11.8
>1/day	68.6	69.4	68.4
Hypertension, %	81.2	86.5	88.5
Diuretics, %	20.2	22.4	23.5