Biological age and tempos of aging in women over 60 in connection with their morphofunctional characteristics

Table 3 Somatic traits in women with different tempos of aging

Traits	Slow aging, N = 32		Average aging, N = 23		Accelerated aging, N = 15		Long-lived women, N = 49
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Body mass (kg)	83.5	16.1	77.8	13.4	75.3	12.7	58.7	11.7
Height (cm)	159.3	6.2	158.3	6.7	155.1	4.0	148.8*	7.3
BMI, kg/m²	32.9	5.6	31.1	4.8	31.3	4.9	26.5*	4.5
Waist circumference (cm)	98.6	13.5	96.0	12.1	98.9	10.6	90.1	11.8
Hip circumference (cm)	112.6	12.0	109.8	8.5	111.0	9.1	98.0	9.6
Waist-hip ratio	0.88	0.07	0.87	0.05	0.89	0.06	0.92	0.09
Fat mass (kg)	34.7	11.8	30.3	8.9	29.6	10.4	16.7*	7.7
Skeletal muscle mass (kg)	19.7	2.6	19.3	2.7	18.1	2.2	16.1	5.2
Active cell mass (kg)	26.5	3.3	25.3	3.5	25.1	3.5	24.0	7.5

*statistically significant (P <0.05) when the means of body parameters for group 4 (long-lived women) are pairwise compared with all other groups. BMI, Body Mass Index; SD, Standard deviation.