Table 1.

Characteristics of native Japanese, Japanese-Americans and Caucasian women.

	Native Japanese		Japanese-Americans		Caucasians
	N = 163		N = 681		N = 9403
Characteristics	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Age [range] (years)	70.6 [65–85]	4.9	74.6a [65–92]	4.6	71.6a,b [65–99]	5.3
Height (cm)	147.9	5.2	150.2a	6.1	159.2a,b	6.0
Weight (kg)	49.5	6.7	52.9a	9.3	66.4a,b	12.5
Body mass	22.6	2.7	23.5	4.4	26.2a,b	4.6
index (kg/m2)

a; p < 0.05 compared to native Japanese. b; p < 0.05 compared to Japanese-Americans.