. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 1.

Published in final edited form as: Arthritis Rheumatol. 2021 Apr 23;73(6):1014–1020. doi: 10.1002/art.41614

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics according to diet assignment.

	Control, N = 107	Fruit/Vegetable, N = 110	Combination (DASH), N = 110
Age, year	45.1 (11.7)	46.3 (10.9)	44.8 (10.5)
Female, %	43.0	44.5	52.7
Black, %	49.5	48.2	53.6
Body mass index ≥ 30 kg/m², %	36.4	36.4	36.4
Body mass index, kg/m²	28.0 (3.9)	27.9 (4.0)	28.3 (3.9)
Hypertension, %	27.1	27.3	24.5
Systolic blood pressure, mm Hg	130.7 (10.8)	131.5 (11.3)	130.9 (10.3)
Diastolic blood pressure, mm Hg	85.0 (4.5)	84.3 (4.9)	84.3 (4.4)
Low density lipoprotein cholesterol, mg/dL	121.8 (30.8)	127.9 (30.6)	117.1 (33.3)

Note that one person assigned the control diet and one person assigned the fruit/vegetable diet is missing a low density lipoprotein cholesterol value.

For LDL-cholesterol, the N was 106 among those assigned control and 109 among those assigned fruit/vegetables due to missing values. Among those exclude, only 128 had an LDL-cholesterol measurement.