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. 2022 Jan 10;5:11. doi: 10.1038/s42003-021-02957-7

Table 2.

Demographic information of study participants of healthy weight (18.5 ≤ BMI < 25 and WHR ≤ 0.85/0.9 for female/male) and overweight (BMI ≥ 25 and WHR > 0.85/0.9) individuals.

Information Healthy weight Overweight p-value
Number of participants 104 75 N/A
Age 35.87 ± 17.32 49.46 ± 17.22 5.63 × 10−7*
Sex (male: female) 37: 67 41: 34 1.10 × 10−2*
BMI (kg/m2) 22.37 ± 1.67 31.07 ± 4.60 4.07 × 10−41*
WHR Male 0.81 ± 0.03 0.98 ± 0.06 1.12 × 10−24*
Female 0.76 ± 0.05 0.90 ± 0.04 1.45 × 10−25*
TFEQ scores Total 14.71 ± 7.05 18.83 ± 8.57 5.52 × 10−4*
Dietary restraint 6.61 ± 4.62 8.99 ± 4.81 1.00 × 10−3*
Disinhibition 3.79 ± 2.53 5.52 ± 3.31 1.06 × 10−4*
Hunger 4.32 ± 3.21 4.32 ± 3.24 9.96 × 10−1

BMI body mass index, TFEQ three-factor eating questionnaire.

Mean ± standard deviation are reported if applicable. We reported waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) for males and females separately as the cut-off for distinguishing healthy weight and overweight groups are different between biological sexes. Information that showed significant between-group differences based on two-sample t test (for continuous variables) or chi-squared test (for discrete variables) are reported with asterisks.