. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Am Geriatr Soc. 2017 Nov 20;66(2):316–320. doi: 10.1111/jgs.15213

Table 1.

Participant Characteristics

Characteristic	Value
Age, years, mean ± SD	83.6 ± 7.0
Race/ethnicity, n (%)
Caucasian	136 (96.5)
African-American	5 (3.5)
Height, inches, mean ± SD	62.0 ± 3.1
Weight, pounds, mean ± SD	153.6 ± 34.2
BMI, kg/m², mean ± SD	28.1 (5.8)
Co-morbidity Index, mean ± SD, range (0–9)	3.1 ± 1.1
Frailty status, n (%)
Frail	9 (6.4)
Prefrail	69 (48.9)
Non-frail	63 (44.7)
ALM/height², kg/m², mean ± SD	6.7 ± 1.1
ALM/BMI, m², mean ± SD	0.6 ± 0.1
Grip strength, kg, mean ± SD	19.9 ± 4.9
Gait speed, m/s, mean ± SD	0.78 ± 0.22

SD = standard deviation, BMI = body mass index, ALM = appendicular lean muscle mass