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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Apr 7.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2007 Jul;15(7):1782–1788. doi: 10.1038/oby.2007.212

Table 2.

Minutes of activity at each of the various intensities in normal-weight and at-risk-of-overweight and overweight adolescent girls

Weekday Weekend


Intensity of activity Normal-weight girls* (n = 1043) At-risk and overweight girls (n = 534) p Normal-weight girls* (n = 1043) At-risk and overweight girls (n = 534) p
Sedentary 495 (6.9) 510 (7.2) <0.001 356 (5.2) 363 (6.0) 0.156
Light 358 (5.6) 349 (5.9) 0.008 308 (4.1) 309 (4.7) 0.777
Moderate 20.4 (1.2) 18.9 (1.3) 0.002 14.2 (0.4) 12.8 (0.5) 0.005
Vigorous 6.4 (0.6) 5.2 (0.6) <0.001 5.0 (0.2) 3.9 (0.3) 0.001
Moderate + vigorous 26.9 (1.7) 24.1 (1.8) <0.001 19.2 (0.5) 16.7 (0.7) 0.001
Hours monitored 14.7 (0.4) 14.7 (0.5) 0.211 11.4 (0.1) 11.5 (0.1) 0.371

Values reported as mean (standard error) at each intensity level. Analysis controlled for site, school (site), and race.

*

Normal-weight defined as BMI < 85th percentile, including some (2.92%) underweight girls (<5th percentile).

At-risk and overweight defined as BMI ≥ 85th percentile.