. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 8.

Published in final edited form as: Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2020 Oct 31;31(2):641–649. doi: 10.1016/j.numecd.2020.10.018

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics

Characteristic	Premenopausal Women	Postmenopausal Women	Men	P-value
n	43	22	10
Age (y)	43 ± 9 ^a	55 ± 6 ^b	45 ± 11 ^a	<0.001
Race or ethnic group
White	6 (14%)	5 (23%)	2 (20%)	0.43
Black	27 (63%)	11 (50%)	5 (50%)
Asian	2 (5%)	1 (5%)	1 (10%)
Hispanic	8 (19%)	5 (23%)	2 (20%)
Other	0 (0%)	0 (0%)	0 (0%)
Body weight and composition
Body weight (kg)	97 ± 15 ^a	87 ± 11 ^b	110 ± 19 ^c	0.001
Height (cm)	165 ± 17 ^a	161 ± 7 ^a	177 ± 6 ^b	0.01
Body-mass index (kg/m²)	36 ± 6	34 ± 4	35 ± 6	0.06

Values are expressed as means ± SD.

P value: One-way ANOVA with Tukey’s post-hoc test for continuous variables (means not sharing a common letter are significantly different). McNemar test for categorical variables.