10-Year Weight Gain in 13,802 US Adults: The Role of Age, Sex, and Race

Table 4

Mean differences in 10-year weight gain between women and men, after adjusting for the covariates.

Outcome	Mean ± SE		F
	Women	Men
10-year weight gain (kg)	5.4 ± 0.3	2.6 ± 0.2	73.6	<0.0001
10-year weight gain (%)	9.2 ± 0.4	3.8 ± 0.3	194.1	<0.0001

10-year weight gain represents the average amount of weight gained over the previous 10 years, expressed in kg or as a percentage of initial body weight. SE = standard error of the mean. Means have been adjusted for differences in age and race. The sample size percentages (%) and number (n) were women (52.0%, n = 7108) and men (48.0%, n = 6694). Differences in the sample sizes for women and men should be interpreted based on the percentages (%), not the number (n), for the individual sample weights to have their effect.