Table 1 Lifestyle, Anthropometric and Blood Lipid Characteristics. Values are reported as mean ± standard error of the mean (SEM). P-values are reported for Fisher exact test (†) or unpaired t-test (*) between Indian men vs Caucasian men or Indian women vs Caucasian women for each parameter with a p-value of less than 0.05 considered significant

N

54

32

28

51

Born in Canada (yes/no) %

0/52 0%

29/3 90.6%

< 0.001†

1/27 3.6%

38/13 74.5%

< 0.001†

Diabetes (yes/no) %

8/42 16.0%

1/31 3.1%

NS†

0/27 0%

0/51 0%

NS†

Smoking (yes/no) %

4/46 8.0%

9/23 28.1%

NS†

1/26 3.7%

25/25 50.0%

0.01†

Age (years)

42.9 ± 1.34

38.3 ± 1.73

0.04*

43.0 ± 1.95

40.3 ± 1.55

NS*

BMI (kg/m ² )

28.3 ± 0.58

26.6 ± 0.70

NS*

28.7 ± 0.86

25.8 ± 0.72

0.01*

BF%

21.6 ± 0.65

17.6 ± 0.89

0.0005*

40.1 ± 1.52

33.6 ± 1.23

0.002*

WHR

0.93 ± 0.01

0.86 ± 0.01

< 0.0001*

0.88 ± 0.01

0.77 ± 0.01

< 0.0001*

WC (cm)

100.4 ± 1.3

91.1 ± 2.1

0.0002*

94.4 ± 2.3

83.0 ± 2.2

0.001*

HC (cm)

108.3 ± 0.9

106.3 ± 1.2

NS*

107.0 ± 2.0

106.4 ± 1.6

NS*

apoB (g/L)

1.00 ± 0.03

0.79 ± 0.05

0.0005*

0.92 ± 0.04

0.77 ± 0.03

0.002*

apoA1 (g/L)

1.19 ± 0.03

1.23 ± 0.04

NS*

1.30 ± 0.05

1.44 ± 0.04

0.05*

TC (mmol/L)

5.23 ± 0.13

4.79 ± 0.19

NS*

5.27 ± 0.16

5.02 ± 0.13

NS*

HDL-C (mmol/l)

0.97 ± 0.03

1.24 ± 0.05

< 0.0001*

1.13 ± 0.05

1.51 ± 0.06

< 0.0001*

TC/HDL-C

5.44 ± 0.21

3.90 ± 0.23

< 0.0001*

4.64 ± 0.24

3.37 ± 0.16

< 0.0001*

apoB/apo A1

0.85 ± 0.03

0.66 ± 0.04

0.0002*

0.73 ± 0.04

0.56 ± 0.03

0.0003*