TABLE 1.

Characteristics of the study participants.

Characteristics	Men			Women
	Discovery	Replication	Combination	Discovery	Replication	Combination
No.	2,616	20,293	22,909	2,877	38,407	41,284
Age (M years ± SD)	51.08 ± 8.33	55.18 ± 8.42	54.71 ± 8.51	51.98 ± 8.64	53.07 ± 7.70	53.00 ± 7.77
Height (M cm ± SD)	68.03 ± 9.46	168.69 ± 5.61	168.50 ± 5.65	153.98 ± 5.43	156.53 ± 5.16	156.36 ± 5.20
Weight (M kg ± SD)	167.00 ± 5.68	69.37 ± 8.72	69.22 ± 8.82	58.78 ± 7.94	57.62 ± 7.25	57.70 ± 7.31
BMI (M kg/m2 ± SD)	24.36 ± 2.84	24.37 ± 2.60	24.37 ± 2.63	24.78 ± 3.03	23.53 ± 2.78	23.62 ± 2.81
Hip circumference (M cm ± SD)	93.90 ± 5.59	95.71 ± 5.35	95.51 ± 7.28	93.38 ± 5.66	93.21 ± 5.36	93.22 ± 5.38
Waist circumference (M cm ± SD)	83.68 ± 7.45	85.62 ± 7.23	85.40 ± 7.28	81.40 ± 9.26	78.08 ± 7.87	78.31 ± 8.02
WHR	0.89 ± 0.06	0.89 ± 0.05	0.89 ± 0.05	0.87 ± 0.09	0.84 ± 0.06	0.84 ± 0.06

BMI, body mass index; WHR, waist–hip ratio; M, mean value; SD, standard deviation.