Table 1 Participant characteristics.

From: Association of visceral fat area with early-stage locomotive syndrome across various age groups: a cross-sectional study

 

Non-LS

LS1

p

N

884

352

 

VFA (mean [SD])

75.5 (42.8)

90.8 (45.2)

< 0.001

Age (mean [SD])

45.3 (14.4)

54.9 (15.3)

< 0.001

20 s

129 (14.6)

20 (5.7)

 

30 s

240 (27.1)

49 (13.9)

 

40 s

177 (20.0)

66 (18.8)

 

50 s

141 (16.0)

52 (14.8)

 

60 s

161 (18.2)

99 (28.1)

 

70 s

36 (4.1)

58 (16.5)

 

80 s

0

8 (2.3)

 

Sex = female (%)

498 (56.3)

214 (60.8)

0.171

Height (mean [SD])

163.3 (8.7)

160.9 (9.2)

< 0.001

Weight (mean [SD])

60.0 (12.1)

61.3 (12.8)

0.129

BMI (mean [SD])

22.4 (3.3)

23.6 (3.7)

< 0.001

Skeletal muscle mass (mean [SD])

42.9 (9.2)

41.9 (8.9)

0.109

SMI (mean [SD])

15.9 (2.1)

16.0 (2.0)

0.190

Exercise habit = none (%)

547 (61.9)

225 (63.9)

0.546

Smoking status = none (%)

710 (80.3)

282 (80.1)

0.999

Alcohol consumption = none (%)

459 (51.9)

195 (55.4)

0.298

  1. Continuous variables are presented as mean (SD). Categorical variables are presented as N (%).
  2. SD Standard deviation, VFA Visceral fat area, BMI Body mass index, SMI Skeletal muscle mass index.
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