Table 3.
Proportion of children by BMI category1 at 4.5 years and by eating behaviour
| Behaviour | Category | Underweight (< 10thpercentile) | Normal weight (10–84.9th percentile) | At risk for overweight (85–94.9th percentile) | Overweight (> = 95th percentile) |
| Total | 15.2 | 64.4 | 11.3 | 9.0 | |
| Picky eaters | Never reported as picky eater | 13.2* | 64.0 | 12.9* | 9.9 |
| Reported as picky eater once or twice | 18.3 | 67.3 | 7.6 | 6.9 | |
| Reported as picky eater at all three ages | 26.8 | 57.6 | 7.9 | 7.7 | |
| Overeaters | Never reported as overeater | 18.2* | 68.5 | 8.4* | 4.9* |
| Reported as overeater once or twice | 11.3 | 60.1 | 15.5 | 13.1 | |
| Reported as overeater at all three ages | 6.8 | 47.9 | 18.3 | 27.1 | |
1 Percentiles from the BMI on the CDC USA Growth curves (age & sex specific curves)
* Statistically significant association between the characteristic and the dependant variable (p-value (chi-square) < = 0.05)