Evaluation of Nutrients Intake for a Group of Jordanian Older Adults with Sarcopenia Syndrome in Amman: An Explorative and Pilot Study

Table 2

General characteristics of the study sample.

Variables	Sarcopenia group N (%)	Control group N (%)	value
Age (years)	77.5 ± 6.9	74.7 ± 5.5	0.070
Gender
Female	13 (52)	13 (52)
Male	12 (48)	12 (48)
Marital status
Married	5 (20)	19 (76)	≤0.001
Single	8 (32)	2 (8.0)
Divorced	1 (4.0)	2 (8.0)
Widowed	11 (44)	2 (8.0)

Age is presented as mean age ± SD, N represents the number of participants, and (%) represents the percentage of the participants.