. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Apr 1.

Published in final edited form as: Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2020 Feb 19;28(4):446–452. doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2020.02.028

Table 1.

Descriptive characteristics of the sample overall and by baseline hand OA status

Sample Characteristics	Overall (n=800)	No baseline hand OA (n=473)	Baseline hand OA (n=327)
	mean (SD) or %	mean (SD) or %	mean (SD) or %
Age, years	59.6 (7.5)	57.3 (6.6)	63.1 (7.4)
Female, %	68.0	65.3	71.9
African American, %	31.5	39.5	19.9
<12 years education, %	13.8	13.8	13.8
Baseline body mass index, kg/m²	31.0 (6.4)	31.6 (6.7)	30.2 (5.9)
>5% weight gain from baseline to follow up, %	32.6	33.4	31.5