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. 2024 Dec 26;184(1):105. doi: 10.1007/s00431-024-05835-6

Table 1.

Demographic data divided into BMI categories

BMI Total (N = 5520)
Underweight
(N = 722)
Normal (N = 4029) Overweight (N = 503) Obese (N = 266)
Age at diagnosis 9.08 ± 4.1 7.66 ± 4.2 8.0 ± 4.5 9.0 ± 4.6 7.94 ± 4.2
Gender Males 343 (47.5%) 1679 (41.7%) 194 (38.6%) 129 (48.5%) 2345 (42.5%)
Females 379 (52.5%) 2350 (58.3%) 309 (61.4%) 137 (51.5%) 3175 (57.5%%)
SES Low 369 (51.1%) 1558 (38.7%) 172 (34.2%) 92 (34.6%) 2191 (39.7%)
Medium 216 (29.9%) 1376 (34.2%) 196 (39%) 100 (37.6%) 1888 (34.2%)
High 132 (18.3%) 1080 (26.8%) 134 (26.6%) 73 (27.4%) 1419 (25.7%)
Missing 5 (0.07%) 15 (0.04%) 1 (0.2%) 1 (0.4%) 22 (0.4%)
Ethnicity Jews 492 (68.1%) 3119 (77.4%) 422 (83.9%) 221 (83.1%) 4254 (77.1%)
Arabs 230 (31.9%) 910 (22.6%) 81 (16.1%) 45 (16.9%) 1266 (22.9%)

BMI body mass index, SES socioeconomic status