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

Published in final edited form as: Nutrition. 2020 Jan 18;74:110733. doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2020.110733

Table 2.

Characteristics of 266 adult, healthy African-born Blacks living in the United States

	Men (n = 181) (mean±SD)	Women (n = 85) (mean±SD)	P-Value ^*
Age (years)	39.8 ± 9.9	39.6 ± 10.3	0.951
Weight (kg)	84.0 ± 13.5	77.6 ± 14.7	0.001
Height (cm)	176.0 ± 7.0	163.5 ± 5.9	0.000
Body Mass Index (kg/m²)	27.1 ± 3.9	29.0 ± 5.1	0.005
Hip Circumference (cm)	100.9 ± 7.5	108.1 ± 11.0	0.000
Years in United States	11.2 ± 9.3	14.6 ± 9.4	0.730

All variables were assessed using the Mann Whitney test except for the variable Years in the United States, which was normally distributed and therefore the independent t-test was used. P<0.05 considered significant