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Table 1 Demographics, Body Composition, Insulin, Glucose, and Mitochondrial Function of all Participants and Separated by Gender

From: Relationships between mitochondrial content and bioenergetics with obesity, body composition and fat distribution in healthy older adults

 

All

Female

Male

 

Mean ± SD

Mean ± SD

Mean ± SD

P-value2

Age (years)

69.2 ± 3.7

69.2 ± 3.7

69.2 ± 3.8

0.97

BMI (kg/m2)

27.7 ± 5.1

26.3 ± 6.1

28.9 ± 3.8

0.22

Waist Circumference (cm)

90.7 ± 16.1

83.4 ± 18.0

97.4 ± 11.0

0.03

Waist/Hip ratio

0.9 ± 0.1

0.8 ± 0.2

0.9 ± 0.1

0.15

Total Fat Mass(kg)

28.6 ± 8.9

28.8 ± 10.9

28.3 ± 6.9

0.88

Total Lean Mass1 (kg)

7.14 ± 0.8

6.5 ± 0.5

7.8 ± 0.4

0.00

Percent Fat Mass

35.4 ± 6.9

39.5 ± 6.3

31.3 ± 4.8

0.00

Leg Fat Mass to Total Fat Mass ratio

0.3 ± 0.05

0.37 ± 0.05

0.30 ± 0.04

0.00

Total Thigh Fat (cm3)

647.0 ± 237.1

751.9 ± 256.5

550.2 ± 175.9

0.03

Thigh Subcutaneous Fat (cm3)

623.7 ± 226.4

727.5 ± 241.5

528.0 ± 168.4

0.02

Thigh Intermuscular Fat (cm3)

23.3 ± 15.9

24.4 ± 18.4

22.2 ± 13.9

0.74

Total Thigh Muscle (cm3)

648.4 ± 153.5

517.4 ± 86.0

769.4 ± 85.3

0.00

Thigh Intermuscular Fat/Total Thigh Fat Ratio

0.04 ± 0.02

0.03 ± 0.01

0.04 ± 0.02

0.27

HOMA-IR1

1.5 ± 0.5

1.3 ± 0.6

1.6 ± 0.5

0.12

Insulin (mIU/L)a

3.1 ± 1.0

2.7 ± 1.1

3.3 ± 0.9

0.14

Glucose (mmol/L)

5.1 ± 0.5

5.0 ± 0.4

5.3 ± 0.6

0.07

State 3 OCR (pmol/min/5 μg)

499.7 ± 200.3

459.5 ± 230.0

536.8 ± 169.2

0.35

State 4o OCR (pmol/min/5 μg)

123.1 ± 68.5

120.1 ± 68.5

125.8 ± 71.1

0.84

State 3u OCR (pmol/min/5 μg)

556.6 ± 315.2

487.5 ± 344.9

620.3 ± 283.8

0.30

Respiratory Control Ratio (RCR)

4.5 ± 1.3

4.0 ± 0.6

5.0 ± 1.6

0.06

Citrate Synthase Activity (μmol/min/mg)

175.1 ± 77.1

161.3 ± 82.4

190.2 ± 71.7

0.38

  1. BMI body mass index, OCR oxygen consumption rate, RCR respiratory control ratio
  2. aVariables were square-root transformed to achieve normal distribution, 2 Independent samples t-test between females (N = 12) and males (N = 11-13)