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Published in final edited form as: Int J Pediatr Obes. 2008;3(2):123–126. doi: 10.1080/17477160801902248

Table 1.

Participant characteristics for Mexican American (MA) and European American (EA) girls and boys.

	Girls		Boys
	MA	EA	MA	EA
N	10	11	10	16
Age (y)	8.3 ± 1.2	8.1 ± 1.0	7.6 ± 1.0	8.0 ± 1.0
Height (cm)	132.0 ± 9.2	132.8 ± 8.1	127.7 ± 4.2	129.4 ± 6.7
Weight (kg)	36.6 ± 11.2	35.4 ± 6.9	31.4 ± 6.1	32.1 ± 7.3
BMI (kg/m²)	20.7 ± 4.4	19.9 ± 2.4	19.1 ± 2.9	19.0 ± 3.0
Fat-Free Mass (kg)	23.1 ± 4.5	24.4 ± 3.7	21.6 ± 2.5	22.9 ± 3.6
% Body Fat	34.7 ± 9.7	30.0 ± 7.9	29.8 ± 7.8	27.4 ± 7.8
TEE (MJ·d⁻¹)	6.86 ± 0.93 ^a	8.09 ± 0.84 ^b	7.55 ± 0.90	7.92 ± 1.50 ^b
REE (MJ·d⁻¹)	4.99 ± 0.64	4.92 ± 0.55	4.91 ± 0.46	4.99 ± 0.58
TEF (MJ·d⁻¹)	0.41 ± 0.06	0.49 ± 0.05	0.45 ± 0.05	0.48 ± 0.09
AEE (MJ·d⁻¹)	1.47 ± 0.61 ^a	2.68 ± 0.89 ^b	2.19 ± 0.78 ^b	2.46 ± 1.00 ^b
AEE (kJ.kg⁻¹·d⁻¹)	42.6 ± 18.2 ^a	79.3 ± 31.3 ^b	71.4 ± 27.4 ^b	75.1 ± 22.9 ^b
PAL	1.40 ± 0.12 ^a	1.66 ± 0.22 ^b	1.57 ± 0.18 ^b	1.58 ± 0.19 ^b

^*

Characteristics with differing superscripts are significantly different, p<0.05