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Table 1 Participant characteristics and comparison to entire ARIC Cohort at Visit 6

From: Physical activity cut-points for older adults using the Zio XT onboard accelerometer

 

Zio Study Participants (n = 381)

Other ARIC Participants (n = 3,622)

p*

Median, N

(Q1, Q3, %)

Median, N

(Q1, Q3, %)

Age, years

78

(75, 81)

79

(76, 83)

 < 0.001

Race/Ethnicity, n(%)

 White

307

(80.6%)

2,707

(74.7%)

0.012

 Non-White

74

(19.4%)

915

(25.3%)

Sex, n (%)

 Male

165

(43.3%)

1472

(40.6%)

0.3

 Female

216

(56.7%)

2150

(59.4%)

BMI, kg/m2

27.2

(24.5, 30.8)

27.7

(24.5, 31.4)

0.15

  1. *Fisher’s Exact tests were used to compare race and sex. Mann–Whitney tests were used for age and BMI