Table 1 Demographic and obesity measure information

From: Identifying obesity and dementia risk: body adiposity and neural connectivity in cognitively normal, mid-life adults

 

Obesity status

Sex

 
 

Obese

(n = 30)

Non-obese

(n = 20)

t-statistic

Difference (significance)

Male

(n = 20)

Female

(n = 30)

t-statistic

Difference (significance)

Total

(n = 50)

Age, years (mean ± SD)

51.0 ± 6.2

49.7 ± 6.1

0.7384

0.4639

52.2 ± 6.7

49.3 ± 5.6

1.6833

0.09881

50.4 ± 6.1

Race, n (C/AA/As)

16/13/1

17/2/1

–

–

12/7/1

21/8/1

–

–

33/15/2

BMI (kg/m2)

36.4 ± 4.3

25.8 ± 4.9

8.0106

<0.0001

31.8 ± 6.0

32.5 ± 7.6

−0.3465

0.7305

32.2 ± 6.9

VAT, cm3

(mean ± SD)

1376.2 ± 579.7

668.2 ± 412.6

4.7165

<0.0001

1353.3 ± 676.6

919.5 ± 526.6

2.545

0.0142

1093.0 ± 622.6

SAT, cm3

(mean ± SD)

3502.6 ± 1191.5

1904.6 ± 699.2

5.3991

<0.0001

2530.6 ± 1304.7

3085.2 ± 1246.7

−1.5129

0.1369

2863.4 ± 1286.5

VAT/SAT

(mean ± SD)

0.46 ± 0.32

0.38 ± 0.24

0.9726

0.3356

0.62 ± 0.34

0.30 ± 0.16

4.4284

<0.0001

0.43 ± 0.29

  1. Significance denotes p-values as determined by a two-sample t-test. Bolded values indicate significance with α < 0.05.
  2. SD standard deviation, BMI body mass index, VAT visceral adipose tissue, SAT subcutaneous tissue, race: C Caucasian, AA African American, As Asian.
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