Table 1.

Physical characteristics of the study participants.

Characteristics	Lean	Overweight	Obese	p-value
Age (years)	41 ± 10.78	42.6 ± 14.09	47.9 ± 13.1	0.421
Weight (kg)	60.7 ± 7.37	74.4 ± 9.88	104.6 ± 16.2	< 0.0001****
Height (m)	1.64 ± 0.05	1.62 ± 0.12	1.7 ± 0.08	0.13
BMI (kg/m2)	22.3 ± 2.19	28.05 ± 1.05	35.8 ± 3.54	< 0.0001****
Waist to hip circumference	0.80 ± 0.023	0.87 ± 0.06	1.0 ± 0.08	0.06
Body fat percentage (%)	31.9 ± 5.9	37.1 ± 3.92	38.1 ± 3.95	0.114