Table 2.

Baseline DXA measures of body composition, subdivided by incident HF and sex

	Total		Men			Women
Characteristics, mean ± SD	No HF (n=2704)	HF (n=111)	HF (n=52)	No HF (n=1314)	P-value	HF (n=59)	No HF (n=1390)	P-value
Body mass index, kg/m2	27.3 ± 4.7	28.8 ± 4.9	28.2 ± 3.3	27.0 ± 3.9	<0.01	29.4 ± 6.0	27.6 ± 5.4	0.02
Total mass, kg	75.4 ± 14.9	78.5 ± 13.6	80.9 ± 10.0	78.6 ± 12.9	0.05	72.7 ± 15.0	68.2 ± 14.2	0.01
Total lean mass, kg	46.6 ± 10.0	48.0 ± 9.1	55.2 ± 5.8	54.4 ± 7.1	0.24	41.6 ± 6.3	39.4 ± 6.0	0.001
Appendicular lean mass, kg	20.1 ± 5.0	20.7 ± 4.5	24.2 ± 3.0	23.9 ± 3.6	0.38	17.7 ± 3.3	16.6 ± 3.2	0.002
Total fat mass, kg	26.6 ± 8.7	28.6 ± 9.0	25.7 ± 6.3	24.2 ± 7.2	0.08	31.1 ± 10.2	29.1 ± 9.3	0.11
Percent Body Fat, %	34.9 ± 7.8	35.7 ± 7.8	30.2 ± 4.9	29.2 ± 5.0	0.24	40.6 ± 6.5	40.4 ± 5.8	0.63

HF–heart failure

These data reflect body composition at entry in the Health ABC study (year 1) for both cases and controls.