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

Table 6

Means by Waist Circumference*, Gender and Race.

			Sex
			Female			Male
			Waist Circumference*			Waist Circumference*
			Normal	Overweight	Obese	Normal	Normal	Obese
White (10 yrs)	Sample size	Sum	928	910	870	651	757	697
	Age	Mean	72.5	72.3	72.2	74.3	73.2	72.6
	% Current smoker	Mean	13.79	11.43	10.93	10.62	10.04	7.47
	% Lost 10 + lbs	Mean	11.64	12.64	9.89	11.06	12.29	13.63
	YOL	Mean	9.13	9.10	9.08	8.20	8.36	8.39
	SPL	Mean	6.52	6.38	6.28	6.24	6.55	6.27
	FLW	Mean	8.40	8.29	8.27	7.61	7.85	7.59
	SOC	Mean	3.53	3.56	3.54	2.87	3.05	2.97
	DEP	Mean	7.19	6.86	6.81	6.86	7.17	6.77
	BED	Mean	8.60	8.44	8.36	7.79	8.03	7.84
	FLUSH	Mean	5.59	5.84	5.15	5.22	5.34	5.31
	COG	Mean	5.87	5.82	5.65	4.83	5.02	4.87
	HOSP	Mean	8.24	8.06	8.01	7.19	7.21	7.06
	EVGG	Mean	7.22	6.93	6.50	6.42	6.66	5.96
	LEV	Mean	5.95	5.68	5.52	5.39	5.75	5.25
	EXSTR	Mean	5.98	5.66	5.31	6.72	6.78	6.44
	IADL	Mean	6.28	5.84	5.12	6.12	6.30	5.59
	BLOCK	Mean	2.91	2.38	1.85	3.72	3.58	2.89
	ADL	Mean	7.73	7.24	6.69	7.16	7.17	6.57
	TWLK	Mean	5.51	4.94	3.95	5.48	5.67	4.54
Black (7 yrs)	Sample size	Sum	186	194	188	116	119	99
	Age	Mean	71.0	70.7	70.6	71.3	70.4	69.2
	% Current smoker	Mean	17.74	13.92	6.99	23.48	20.17	15.15
	% Lost 10 + lbs	Mean	13.44	15.46	16.49	13.79	10.92	14.14
	YOL	Mean	6.60	6.56	6.47	6.03	6.28	6.23
	SPL	Mean	4.65	5.08	4.62	4.04	4.88	4.52
	FLW	Mean	5.98	6.11	5.78	5.35	5.88	5.70
	SOC	Mean	2.15	2.54	2.27	2.26	2.15	2.10
	DEP	Mean	4.58	4.79	4.25	4.37	4.93	4.63
	BED	Mean	6.03	5.93	5.62	5.59	5.87	5.70
	FLUSH	Mean	3.25	3.31	3.23	3.09	3.16	3.16
	COG	Mean	2.39	2.35	1.99	1.81	2.42	2.10
	HOSP	Mean	5.85	5.85	5.44	5.34	5.63	5.24
	EVGG	Mean	4.16	4.30	3.09	3.81	4.23	4.02
	LEV	Mean	3.36	3.69	3.26	3.68	3.82	3.42
	EXSTR	Mean	3.40	3.75	2.63	4.60	5.13	4.68
	IADL	Mean	3.92	3.98	2.97	4.28	4.86	4.14
	BLOCK	Mean	1.23	1.03	.68	1.71	1.97	1.42
	ADL	Mean	4.96	4.79	3.83	5.11	5.41	4.56
	TWLK	Mean	2.89	2.60	1.45	3.22	3.27	2.69

*Overweight = 84.5–96.5 for White Female, 94.0–107.5 for Black Female, 93.0–101.5 for Male.