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Table 1 Participant characteristics

From: Association between menstrual cycle phase and metabolites in healthy, regularly menstruating women in UK Biobank, and effect modification by inflammatory markers and risk factors for metabolic disease

Characteristic

Mean ± SD or n (%)

Age (years)

44.9 ± 2.8

Weight (kg)

70.4 ± 14.3

Height (m)

1.6 ± 0.1

BMI (kg/m2)

26.2 ± 5.2

Fat mass (kg)

25.0 ± 10.3

Fat mass (%)

34.3 ± 7.2

Fat-free mass (kg)

45.4 ± 5.0

Fat-free mass (%)

27.0 ± 3.7

Nutritional status

 Under-weight, BMI \(<\) 18.5

75 (0.9)

 Normal-weight, BMI \(\le\) 18.5 to \(<\) 25

4203 (48.3)

 Over-weight, BMI \(\le\) 25 to \(<\) 30

2800 (32.2)

 Obese, BMI \(\ge\) 30

1590 (18.3)

Ethnicity

 White

7782 (89.5)

 Black

123 (1.4)

 Mixed

228 (2.6)

 Asian

321 (3.6)

 Chinese

67 (0.7)

 Other

150 (1.7)

Physical activity

 Walking (MET min/week)

1050.9 ± 1093.2

 Moderate (MET min/week)

774.0 ± 1049.1

 Vigorous (MET min/week)

664.4 ± 1022.8

 Summed (MET min/week)

2489.4 ± 2405.3

Grip strength (kg)

26.9 ± 6.0

Cardiorespiratory fitness (METs)

9.6 ± 2.4

Estradiol (pmol/L)

560.1 ± 383.8

IGF-1 (mmol/L)

23.8 ± 5.4

CRP (mg/L)

2.0 ± 3.6

HBA1c (mmol/mol)

33.0 ± 3.6

Glucose (mmol/L)

4.78 ± 0.49

Triglyceride (mmol/L)

1.20 ± 0.66

TyG index (mmol/L)

4.50 ± 0.23

Total cholesterol (mmol/L)

5.37 ± 0.90

HDL cholesterol (mmol/L)

1.55 ± 0.34

LDL cholesterol (mmol/L)

3.27 ± 0.71

Total to HDL cholesterol (mmol/L)

3.59 ± 0.93

  1. BMI body mass index, CRP C-reactive protein, HBA1c glycated haemoglobin, HDL high-density lipoprotein, IGF-1 insulin-like growth factor-1, LDL low-density lipoprotein, TyG index triglyceride to glucose index. Continuous variables are reported as mean ± 1 SD for continuous variables and categorical variables are reported as the number of observations and their respective percentage