Gender, Success, and Drop-Out during a Resistance Exercise Program in Community Dwelling Old Adults

Table 2

Characteristics of participants that dropped out or completed the program.

	Completers	Drop-out	value
	( = 208)	( = 28)
	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD
Age (years)			<0.001
BMI (kg/m2)			0.853
Waist (cm)			0.815
Body fat (%)			0.073
Body fat (kg)			0.325
Lean body mass (kg)			0.175
Appendicular muscle mass (kg)			0.052
Appendicular skeletal muscle (%)			0.022
Quadriceps strength (N)			0.005
Quadriceps strength (N/kg)			0.021
Grip strength (lb)			0.045
6MWD (m)			<0.001
TUG (sec)			<0.001
MMSE (score)			0.175
QoL (score)			0.199
Number of drugs for different conditions			0.058
Exercise/week (min)			<0.001

Differences between genders according to independent samples -test (normally distributed variables) and Mann–Whitney test (not normally distributed variables). Corrected for body weight.