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Published in final edited form as: Environ Res. 2023 Jul 19;236(Pt 1):116706. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.116706

Table 3.

Baseline demographics according to metabolic measures (N = 344).

N Waist circumference z-score Insulin z-score Average blood pressure (Tarokh et al., 2019) z-score Lipids ratio (Rodríguez et al., 2004) z-score Fasting glucose z-score MetS Risk z-score
Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD)

Sex
 Male 169 −0.17 (1.1) −0.14 (0.80) 0.05 (1.0) −0.08 (0.91) 0.16 (1.0) −0.06 (1.0)
 Female 175 0.12 (1.0) 0.12 (1.2) −0.24 (0.90) 0.04 (1.1) −0.15 (1.0) 0.04 (1.0)
P 0.0075 0.0028 0.0083 0.08 0.0040 0.26
Age groups, (years)
 10–12 146 −0.10 (1.1) 0.07 (1.2) −0.34 (0.94) 0.08 (1.2) 0.08 (0.96) 0.03 (1.1)
 13–15 139 −0.09 (0.92) −0.08 (0.72) −0.04 (0.96) −0.13 (0.74) 0.00 (1.0) −0.10 (0.88)
16–17 59 0.35 (1.1) −0.04 (1.0) 0.38 (0.93) 0.00 (0.94) −0.14 (1.1) 0.11 (1.0)
P 0.02 0.51 <.0001 0.57 0.61 0.39
SES
 Lower 174 0.08 (1.0) 0.06 (1.2) −0.10 (1.0) 0.07 (1.1) 0.01 (1.1) 0.08 (1.1)
 Middle/Higher 170 −0.11 (1.0) −0.08 (0.8) −0.08 (1.0) −0.11 (0.90) 0.00 (0.91) −0.11 (0.88)
P 0.05 0.29 0.81 0.04 0.94 0.21
Pubertal status
 Transitioning 306 −0.05 (1.0) 0.00 (1.0) −0.16 (0.96) −0.02 (1.0) 0.01 (1.0) −0.02 (1.0)
 Mature 38 0.24 (0.87) −0.08 (0.77) 0.45 (1.0) −0.03 (1.0) −0.02 (1.0) 0.10 (0.91)
P 0.04 0.80 0.0010 0.83 0.89 0.26
Smoker
 Ever Smoker 51 0.16 (1.1) −0.12 (0.89) 0.15 (0.96) −0.26 (0.55) −0.10 (1.2) −0.09 (0.89)
 Never Smoker 293 −0.05 (1.1) 0.01 (1.0) −0.13 (0.98) 0.02 (1.0) 0.02 (1.0) 0.00 (1.0)
P 0.30 0.20 0.12 0.14 0.59 0.72
Alcohol intake
 Consumed drink in past year 243 0.02 (1.0) −0.05 (0.79) −0.06 (0.90) −0.05 (1.0) 0.02 (1.0) −0.01 (0.95)
 Did not consume drink in past year 101 −0.12 (1.1) 0.09 (1.4) −0.18 (1.1) 0.06 (1.0) −0.04 (0.95) −0.01 (1.1)
P 0.17 0.95 0.28 0.52 0.52 0.49
MVPA tertiles, (h/wk)
 15.5–66.4 103 0.08 (1.1) 0.02 (0.90) 0.05 (1.1) 0.04 (0.88) −0.15 (1.1) 0.01 (1.0)
 66.5–90.4 117 −0.09 (0.97) −0.06 (0.83) −0.12 (0.93) 0.00 (1.1) 0.01 (0.93) −0.05 (1.0)
 90.6–216.3 124 −0.04 (0.98) 0.02 (1.2) −0.18 (0.93) −0.08 (1.0) 0.13 (1.0) 0.01 (1.1)
P 0.86 0.93 0.27 0.18 0.01 0.82
Screen time tertiles, (h/wk)
 0.5–14.0 111 0.06 (1.1) −0.05 (0.80) −0.26 (1.0) −0.12 (0.79) 0.00 (1.0) −0.05 (0.91)
 14.5–21.0 121 −0.16 (0.99) −0.01 (1.2) −0.05 (0.94) 0.02 (1.0) −0.04 (1.0) −0.06 (1.0)
 21.5–72.0 112 0.05 (1.0) 0.04 (0.93) 0.02 (1.0) 0.04 (1.2) 0.05 (1.0) 0.08 (1.1)
P 0.20 0.71 0.07 0.65 0.87 0.51
1

Average blood pressure: (SBP + DBP/2)

2

Lipids ratio: TG/HDL-c

ABBR: h/wk: hours per week; N = sample size; MVPA: moderate-vigorous physical activity; SES: socioeconomic status; SD: standard deviation.