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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Nov 22.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2019 May 22;27(7):1099–1106. doi: 10.1002/oby.22508

Table 2.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of total sample (continuous variables reported as mean ± SD, and categorical variables as percentages)

Characteristic Total sample (N = 129)
Age (yr) 45.65 ± 12.41
Gender (% women) 73.6
Education (yr) 13.72 ± 2.53
Race (% Caucasian) 64.3
Number of comorbidities (%)
  None 17.1
  One 24.0
  Two 20.9
  Three 20.2
  Four 17.9
Hypertension (%) 57.4
BMI (kg/m2) 45.42 ± 8.28
Class Obesity (%) --
  Class II 33.8
  Class III 65.4
Type-2 diabetes (%) 35.7
  Controlled with diet (% [n]) 19.6 (9)
  On oral anti-diabetic medication (% [n]) 43.5 (20)
  On insulin only (% [n]) 15.2 (7)
  On oral anti-diabetic medication & insulin (% [n]) 17.4 (8)
  Not reported (% [n]) 10.9 (5)
Fasting plasma glucose (mg/dL) 120.5 ± 54.03
HbA1c 6.44 ± 1.46
  Normal (% [n]) 33.1
  Elevated (% [n]) 36.6 (37)
CPAP use (%) 25.0
Sleep apnea (%) 42.6
Arthritis (%) 34.9

Note: BMI = body mass index; CPAP = continuous positive airway pressure.

T-scores have a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10.