Table 3.

Baseline participant characteristics.

Variables	Intervention (n = 76)	Control (n = 77)	P
Age (years), mean (SD)	55.28 (9.85)	57.86 (8.81)	0.091
Ethnicity			0.40
Black or African American	1 (1%)	2 (3%)
US Latino	29 (38%)	34 (44%)
Other Latino (Mexican, Cuban, etc)	10 (13%)	6 (8%)
Anglo	33 (43%)	33 (43%)
Native American	2 (3%)	0 (0%)
Asian	1 (1%)	0 (0%)
Other	0 (0%)	2 (3%)
Education level			0.25
Have received no formal education, did not receive GED	1 (1%)	0 (0%)
Did not complete high school and did not receive a GED	1 (1%)	0 (0%)
Completed high school or received GED	9 (12%)	8 (10%)
Technical/vocation school	0 (0%)	2 (3%)
Some college level credits or 2 year college degree	29 (38%)	21 (27%)
Bachelors degree	22 (29%)	28 (36%)
Masters degree	10 (13%)	17 (22%)
MD, PhD or other Doctoral degree	3 (4%)	1 (1%)
Other	1 (1%)	0 (0%)
Insurance type			0.38
Private Insurance	64 (84%)	59 (77%)
Medicaid	9 (12%)	15 (19%)
No insurance	2 (3%)	3 (4%)
Missing	1 (1%)	0 (0%)
Income			0.95
Under $250	1 (1%)	0 (0%)
$500–$749	1 (1%)	1 (1%)
$750–$999	1 (1%)	2 (3%)
$1000–$1500	2 (3%)	3 (4%)
$1500–$2000	9 (12%)	12 (16%)
Over $2000	60 (79%)	56 (73%)
Refused	2 (3%)	2 (3%)
Missing	0 (0%)	1 (1%)
BMI (kg/m2), median (IQR)	31.90 (28.18, 33.97)	31.64 (29.18, 36.50)	0.21
% Body fat, median (IQR)	0.43 (0.39, 0.47)	0.43 (0.39, 0.47)	0.79
Adipose Stromal Cells (%), median (IQR)	0.50 (0.26, 1.06)	0.48 (0.23, 1.05)	0.99
C-Reactive Protein μg/mL × 10−4), median (IQR)	1.77 (0.95, 3.64)	2.44 (1.18, 4.59)	0.17
Interleukin-3 (pg/mL), median (IQR)	0.22 (0.19, 0.62)	0.22 (0.19, 0.62)	0.70
Interleukin-6 (pg/mL), median (IQR)	0.71 (0.47, 1.51)	0.70 (0.41, 1.25)	0.43
Interleukin-8 (pg/mL), median (IQR)	3.23 (2.10, 4.84)	3.11 (1.64, 5.12)	0.53
Interleukin-10 (pg/mL), median (IQR)	3.62 (1.58, 9.73)	4.57 (1.40, 7.41)	0.64
Tumor Necrosis Factor-α (pg/mL), median (IQR)	1.93 (1.01, 3.87)	1.86 (1.13, 3.42)	0.85