Comparing Years of Healthy Life, Measured in 16 Ways, for Normal Weight and Overweight Older Adults

Table 5

Means by BMI*, gender, and race.

			Sex
			Female			Male
			BMI Category*			BMI Category*
			Normal	Overwt	Obese	Normal	Overwt	Obese
White (10 yrs)	Sample size	Sum	1037	1069	611	649	1092	372
	Age	Mean	73.0	72.4	71.3	74.8	73.0	72.0
	% Current smoker	Mean	15.72	10.02	9.49	12.19	9.53	4.30
	%  Lost 10 + 1bs	Mean	12.63	11.32	9.66	12.48	11.81	13.98
	YOL	Mean	9.09	9.12	9.11	7.96	8.49	8.49
	SPL	Mean	6.29	6.55	6.32	5.96	6.58	6.47
	FLW	Mean	8.23	8.41	8.34	7.32	7.92	7.65
	SOC	Mean	3.44	3.54	3.73	2.69	3.12	3.01
	DEP	Mean	6.98	7.04	6.79	6.59	7.18	6.88
	BED	Mean	8.48	8.52	8.37	7.54	8.11	7.90
	FLUSH	Mean	5.59	5.75	5.05	5.05	5.39	5.42
	COG	Mean	5.64	5.83	5.94	4.45	5.18	4.94
	HOSP	Mean	8.11	8.16	8.02	6.96	7.31	7.07
	EVGG	Mean	7.01	7.07	6.37	6.04	6.64	6.08
	LEV	Mean	5.81	5.74	5.50	5.38	5.62	5.22
	EXSTR	Mean	5.73	5.78	5.31	6.49	6.81	6.42
	IADL	Mean	6.07	5.88	5.03	5.82	6.28	5.54
	BLOCK	Mean	2.79	2.40	1.69	3.47	3.54	2.81
	ADL	Mean	7.47	7.36	6.57	6.89	7.21	6.39
	TWLK	Mean	5.15	5.04	3.87	5.08	5.56	4.56
Black (7 yrs)	Sample size	Sum	102	212	256	95	165	74
	Age	Mean	72.1	70.7	70.4	71.5	70.6	68.3
	% Current smoker	Mean	24.51	13.74	7.84	31.58	14.02	17.57
	% Lost 10 + 1bs	Mean	19.61	13.68	14.45	16.84	10.30	13.51
	YOL	Mean	6.45	6.57	6.56	5.68	6.33	6.47
	SPL	Mean	4.30	5.00	4.81	3.97	4.73	4.59
	FLW	Mean	5.67	6.07	5.99	5.13	5.81	5.93
	SOC	Mean	2.03	2.37	2.39	2.03	2.23	2.23
	DEP	Mean	4.07	4.85	4.46	4.26	4.83	4.73
	BED	Mean	5.71	6.00	5.80	5.20	5.95	5.88
	FLUSH	Mean	3.10	3.50	3.14	2.83	3.27	3.24
	COG	Mean	1.95	2.60	2.07	1.69	2.39	2.04
	HOSP	Mean	5.68	5.88	5.57	4.97	5.66	5.43
	EVGG	Mean	3.58	4.43	3.47	3.62	4.18	4.19
	LEV	Mean	3.25	3.49	3.47	3.53	3.79	3.53
	EXSTR	Mean	3.04	3.80	2.89	4.37	5.06	4.82
	IADL	Mean	3.73	4.06	3.20	3.88	4.73	4.54
	BLOCK	Mean	.93	1.31	.71	1.48	1.94	1.51
	ADL	Mean	4.61	4.95	4.11	4.84	5.28	4.82
	TWLK	Mean	2.39	2.91	1.77	2.82	3.30	2.91

*Normal = 18.5–24.9 (normal), Overweight = 25–29.9 (overweight), Obese = 30+.