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

Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2018 Apr 6;26(6):977–984. doi: 10.1002/oby.22171

Table 1.

Descriptive characteristics of participants [N (%) for categorical variables and mean±SD for continuous variables]

	Subjects Randomized	Subjects with both Baseline and 18 Month Weight Measured	Subjects with both Baseline, 6, and 18 Month Weight Measured
Number of Subjects [Number (% of total)]	363 (100%)	260 (100%)	258 (100%)
Gender(Females) [Number (% of total)]	300 (82.6%)	206 (79.2%)	206 (79.8%)
Age(years)	42.2±9.0	42.8±8.9	42.9±8.9
Body Mass Index(kg/m²)	33.0±3.6	32.8±3.5	32.8±3.5
Ethnicity [Number (% of total)]
Asian	N=2 (0.6%)	N=2 (0.8%)	N=2 (0.8%)
Black or African-American	N=103 (28.4%)	N=69 (26.5%)	N=68 (26.4%)
Hispanic, Latino, Portuguese, Cape Verdean	N=7 (1.9%)	N=5 (1.9%)	N=5 (1.9%)
White	N=243 (66.9%)	N=181 (69.6%)	N=180 (69.8%)
Other	N=8 (2.2%)	N=3 (1.2%)	N=3 (1.2%)