Table 3.
Cluster Color | Description | Mean | Variance | Slope* | Percent of Participants | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVH | WH | Total | |||||
Decliners | Medium | High | Negative | 14.62% | 20.53% | 17.35% | |
0.47 ± 0.13 | 0.37 ± 0.19 | 0.38 ± 0.19 | |||||
Healthy and Steady | High | Low | Constant | 29.23% | 34.82% | 31.82% | |
0.75 ± 0.12 | 0.14 ± 0.09 | 0.55 ± 0.08 | |||||
Improvers | Medium | High | Positive | 21.54% | 17.86% | 19.83% | |
0.58 ± 0.14 | 0.36 ± 0.17 | 0.75 ± 0.11 | |||||
Unhealthy and Steady | Low | Low | Constant | 35.38% | 25.89% | 30.99% | |
0.36 ± 0.13 | 0.1 ± 0.08 | 0.52 ± 0.07 |
For the slope, a normalized value lesser than 0.5 is considered negative slope, a normalized value greater than 0.5 is considered positive slope and a normalized value of approximately 0.5 is considered constant slope.