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

Table 5

Differences in 10-year weight gain across US races, separated by sex, after adjusting for the covariates.

Outcome	Mean ± SE						F
	Mexican American	Other Hispanic	Non-Hispanic			Other or multiracial
			White	Black	Asian
Women only (n = 7108)
10-year weight gain (kg)	5.8^a ± 0.5	5.3^a ± 0.5	5.1^a ± 0.4	8.8^b ± 0.5	2.8^c ± 0.3	4.9^a ± 2.1	28.5	<0.0001
10-year weight gain (%)	9.9^a ± 0.7	9.6^a ± 0.7	8.5^a ± 0.4	13.4^b ± 0.6	5.6^c ± 0.4	9.6^a ± 2.6	29.9	<0.0001
Men only (n = 6694)
10-year weight gain (kg)	2.5^a,b ± 0.5	2.6^a,b ± 0.7	2.3^b ± 0.2	3.6^a ± 0.4	1.3^c ± 0.3	2.6^a,b,c ± 1.1	4.6	<0.0013
10-year weight gain (%)	3.8^a,b,c ± 0.6	4.6^a,b ± 0.8	3.2^a,c ± 0.3	4.9^b ± 0.4	2.6^c ± 0.4	3.1^a,b,c ± 1.2	3.8	<0.0049
Combined (n = 13802)
10-year weight gain (kg)	4.1^a ± 0.3	4.0^a ± 0.4	3.7^a ± 0.2	6.3^b ± 0.3	2.0^c ± 0.2	3.8^a,b,c ± 1.2	27.7	<0.0001
10-year weight gain (%)	6.8^a ± 0.5	7.0^a ± 0.5	5.8^a ± 0.2	9.3^b ± 0.4	4.0^c ± 0.3	6.3^a,b,c ± 1.5	28.5	<0.0001

Means on the same row with the same superscript letter ^(a,b,c) were not statistically different (). SE = standard error of the mean. Means were adjusted for differences in age, and with the sample combined, age and sex. Alpha was 0.0675 for the mean difference between Mexican American and NH Asian men. When combined, the sample size percentages (%) and sample size numbers (n) were Mexican American (7.3%, n = 1847), Other Hispanic (5.7%, n = 1535), NH White (67.6%, n = 4881), NH Black (10.8%, n = 3274), NH Asian (5.3%, n = 1815), and Other or Multiracial (3.3%, n = 450). Because NHANES sample weights were applied to the percentages, differences in the sample sizes across the race categories should be interpreted based on the percentages (%), not the number (n).