Table 1.
Baseline demographics, and anthropometric and metabolic variables 1.
| HLF 2 (n = 305) |
HLC 3 (n = 304) |
|
|---|---|---|
| Sex | ||
| Women | 167 (54.8%) | 179 (58.9%) |
| Men | 138 (45.2%) | 125 (41.1%) |
| Age | 39.3 (±6.8) | 40.2 (±6.7) |
| Education | ||
| Less than high school | 2 (0.7%) | 4 (1.3%) |
| High school graduate | 5 (1.6%) | 11 (3.6%) |
| Some college | 63 (20.7%) | 67 (22.0%) |
| College graduate or more | 234 (76.7%) | 221 (72.7%) |
| Missing | 1 (0.3%) | 1 (0.3%) |
| Race/ethnicity 4 | ||
| White | 176 (57.7%) | 182 (59.9%) |
| Hispanic | 67 (22.0%) | 61 (20.1%) |
| Asian | 30 (9.8%) | 30 (9.9%) |
| African American | 10 (3.3%) | 13 (4.3%) |
| AI/AN/PI | 3 (1.0%) | 0 (0.0%) |
| Other | 19 (6.2%) | 18 (5.9%) |
| Weight (kg) | ||
| Women | 90.7 (±11.5) | 88.9 (±12.5) |
| Men | 105.7 (±13.9) | 106.8 (±13.7) |
| Total | 97.5 (±14.7) | 96.3 (±15.7) |
| BMI (kg/m2) | ||
| Women | 33.3 (±3.4) | 32.9 (±3.4) |
| Men | 33.5 (±3.4) | 33.8 (±3.4) |
| Total | 33.4 (±3.4) | 33.3 (±3.4) |
| Body fat (%) | ||
| Women | 41.0 (±3.9) | 40.4 (±4.0) |
| Men | 29.9 (±4.5) | 30.3 (±4.7) |
| Total | 36.3 (±6.9) | 36.5 (±6.6) |
| Missing | 77 (25.2%) | 66 (21.7%) |
1 Values are mean ± SD for continuous variables, n (%) for categorical variables. 2 HLF = healthy low-fat diet. 3 HLC = healthy low-carbohydrate diet. 4 Race/ethnicity determined by self-report using fixed categories. AI = American Indian; AN = Alaskan Native; PI = Pacific Islander.