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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 30.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Obes (Lond). 2017 Sep 25;42(3):302–309. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2017.233

Table 1.

Baseline Characteristics

Groups According to BMI and Metabolic Risk Factors
MHNW (3048) MHO (1805) MUNW (3570) MUO (9648) P-value
Clinical Characteristics at Baseline in 18071 adults
Age 35±11 38±11 40±13 44±12 <0.001
Sex, Female n (%) 2370 (78%) 1134 (63%) 2477 (69%) 5242 (55%) <0.001
Race
White, n (%) 2367 (78%) 1545 (85%) 2865 (80%) 8669 (89%)
Black 36 (1.2%) 34 (1.9%) 36 (1%) 100 (1%)
Asian 119 (4%) 27 (1.5%) 173 (5%) 133 (1.4%)
Other/Unknown 525 (17%) 198 (11%) 495 (14%) 746 (8%)
Smoker 313 (10.3%) 180 (10%) 475 (13%) 1090 (11%) 0.007
Liver disease 4 (0.1%) 15 (1%) 21 (0.5%) 127 (1.3%) 0.001
COPD 9 (0.3%) 6 (0.3%) 11 (0.3) 38 (0.4%) 0.81
CKD 0 (0%) 1 (0.1%) 19 (0.5%) 26 (0.3%) 0.001
Malignancy 25 (0.8%) 32 (1.8%) 71 (2%) 221 (2.2%) 0.001
Characteristics at baseline that define the groups a
BMI (kg/m2) 22.1 ± 1.7 28.8 ± 4.1 22.6 ± 1.7 31.5 ± 5.6 <0.001 c
TG (mmol/l) 0.93 ± 0.3 1.02 ± 0.3 1.44 ± 0.9 1.98 ± 1.3 <0.001d
HDL-C (mmol/l) 1.63 ± 0.3 1.53 ± 0.3 1.45 ± 0.4 1.29 ± 0.4 <0.001d
Glucose (mmol/l) 4.89 ± 0.3 5.00 ± 0.3 5.17 ± 0.6 5.4 ± 0.6 <0.001d
SBP (mmHg) 115 ± 10 118 ± 10 126 ± 16 131 ± 16 <0.001d
DBP (mmHg) 71 ± 7.5 73 ± 7.1 77 ± 10 82 ± 10 <0.001d
Hypertension, n (%)b 0 0 620 (17.4%) 2911 (30.2%)
Dyslipidemia, n (%)b 0 0 1046 (29.3%) 4116 (42.7%)

MHNW refers to metabolically healthy normal weight, MHO refers to metabolically healthy overweight or obese, MUNW refers to metabolically unhealthy normal weight, MUO refers to metabolically unhealthy overweight or obese.

BMI refers to body mass index, TG refers to triglycerides, HDL-C refers to high density lipoprotein cholesterol, SBP refers to systolic blood pressure, DBP refers to diastolic blood pressure, CKD refers to chronic kidney disease, COPD refers o chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

a

Continuous variables expressed as mean ± SD

b

History of hypertension and dyslipidemia determined based on ICD-9 diagnosis code at baseline

c

P-value for the comparison between MHNW and MUNW, and between MHO and MUO

d

P-value for the comparison between MHNW and MHO, and between MUNW and MUO