Lipids in Health and Disease

Table 1 Characteristics in young subject and older participants

From: Effects of aging on serum levels of lipid molecular species as determined by lipidomics analysis in Japanese men and women

	Age	Height	Weight	BMI
Men
Young	23.9 ± 0.7	172.6 ± 1.7	66.7 ± 2.1	22.3 ± 0.4
Elderly	71.7 ± 0.5^a	163.8 ± 1.9^a	68.2 ± 2.5	25.4 ± 0.8
Women
Young	23.9 ± 0.4	160.8 ± 1.5	52.2 ± 2.6	20.2 ± 0.9
Elderly	70.2 ± 1.0^a	148.2 ± 2.2^a	50.4 ± 3.8	23.0 ± 0.7^a

^aSignificantly different between young participants and elder participants (Unpaired Student’s t test, P < 0.05)

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