Table 1.

Descriptive and comparative data of anthropometric, health and body composition characteristics of older man and women (n = 94) from Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

Variables / Groups	M	SD	Min	Max	Range	95% CI		Normality test
						LL	UL	Value	p
Mini-Mental State Examination
♀ nSc (n = 59)	17.37	1.80	13.00	19.00	6.00	16.90	17.84	0.229k-s	< 0.001
♀ Sc (n = 6)	17.50	1.52	15.00	19.00	4.00	15.91	19.09	0.902s-w	0.389
♂ nSc (n = 24)	17.38	1.86	13.00	19.00	6.00	16.59	18.16	0.828s-w	0.001
♂ Sc (n = 5)	18.75	0.50	18.00	19.00	1.00	17.95	19.55	0.630s-w	0.001
Age (complete years)
♀ nSc	69.10	5.83	60.00	85.00	25.00	67.58	70.62	0.098k-s	0.200
♀ Sc	75.83*	5.19	69.00	84.00	15.00	70.38	81.28	0.982s-w	0.960
♂ nSc	70.25	7.02	60.00	85.00	25.00	67.29	73.21	0.963s-w	0.506
♂ Sc	74.50	6.66	69.00	84.00	15.00	63.91	85.09	0.878s-w	0.331
Body mass (kg)
♀ nSc	67.79†	11.20	45.60	103.55	57.95	64.87	70.71	0.110k-s	0.073
♀ Sc	58.12	12.54	39.35	73.40	34.05	44.96	71.27	0.931s-w	0.585
♂ nSc	74.74	13.26	46.45	109.85	63.40	69.14	80.34	0.949s-w	0.254
♂ Sc	61.43	15.74	43.00	75.50	32.50	36.38	86.47	0.884s-w	0.356
Height (m)
♀ nSc	1.56†	0.06	1.46	1.74	0.28	1.55	1.58	0.079k-s	0.200
♀ Sc	1.55	0.08	1.45	1.65	0.20	1.46	1.63	0.930s-w	0.578
♂ nSc	1.69	0.08	1.58	1.88	0.30	1.65	1.72	0.945s-w	0.209
♂ Sc	1.62	0.08	1.51	1.68	0.18	1.50	1.74	0.821s-w	0.145
BMI (kg/m2)
♀ nSc	27.75	4.37	20.81	39.95	19.14	26.61	28.89	0.105k-s	0.164
♀ Sc	24.03*	3.48	18.33	27.51	9.18	20.38	27.69	0.918s-w	0.489
♂ nSc	26.16	3.59	17.48	31.08	13.60	24.64	27.67	0.947s-w	0.230
♂ Sc	23.27	4.92	18.98	27.73	8.75	15.43	31.10	0.751s-w	0.040
Appendicular Lean Soft Tissue (kg)
♀ nSc	14.80†	2.39	11.10	22.48	11.38	14.18	15.42	0.107k-s	0.090
♀ Sc	11.82*¥	1.86	9.21	14.61	5.40	9.87	13.77	0.980s-w	0.950
♂ nSc	21.63	4.04	14.49	32.48	17.98	19.92	23.33	0.954s-w	0.331
♂ Sc	16.78†	2.96	12.61	19.50	6.89	12.07	21.49	0.912s-w	0.494
Skeletal muscle index (kg/m2)
♀ nSc	6.06†	0.92	4.19	8.67	4.48	5.82	6.30	0.096k-s	0.200
♀ Sc	4.91*¥	0.37	4.29	5.40	1.11	4.52	5.29	0.941s-w	0.666
♂ nSc	7.54	0.93	5.81	9.41	3.60	7.15	7.94	0.963s-w	0.493
♂ Sc	6.36†	0.73	5.57	7.25	1.68	5.20	7.52	0.986s-w	0.935
Fat mass (kg)
♀ nSc	28.40†	7.15	13.79	47.93	34.14	26.53	30.26	0.120k-s	0.034
♀ Sc	24.85	7.85	13.56	32.76	19.20	16.62	33.09	0.897s-w	0.354
♂ nSc	21.78	6.73	7.65	33.61	25.97	18.94	24.62	0.979s-w	0.885
♂ Sc	18.08	9.18	9.99	28.46	18.47	3.47	32.69	0.862s-w	0.266

Note. CI confidence interval, LL lower limit, UL upper limit, ♀ nSc non-sarcopenic women, ♀ Sc sarcopenic women, ♂ nSc non-sarcopenic men, ♂ Sc sarcopenic men, *: p < 0.05 vs ♀ nSc; †: p < 0.05 vs ♂ nSc; ¥: p < 0.05 vs ♂ Sc, k-s Kolmogorov-Smirnov, s-k: Shapiro-Wilk, BMI: body mass index