. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Sep 5.

Published in final edited form as: Int J Obes (Lond). 2005 Aug;29(8):942–949. doi: 10.1038/sj.ijo.0802935

Table 2.

Child characteristics: differences between daughters of overweight and normal-weight mothers (means (s.d.))

Variables	Overweight^a(N = 81)	Normal weight (N = 78)
Daughters' EAH (age 5 y)	104.8 (86.3)	141.9 (97.6)^*
Daughters' EAH (age 7 y)	180.2 (129.9)	175.4 (118.2)
Daughters' EAH (age 9 y)	237.1 (162.6)	207.8 (128.2)
Daughters' BMI (age 5 y)^b	16.2 (1.7)	15.8 (1.6)
Daughters' BMI (age 7 y)^b	17.1 (2.7)^*	16.3 (2.1)
Daughters' BMI (age 9 y)^b	19.5 (3.6)^*	17.8 (2.9)

Overweight defined as BMI≥25 kg/m².

The corresponding BMI percentiles based on the CDC 2000 growth charts are 65.7 and 56.9 at age 5 y, 66.6 and 54.7 at age 7 y, and 73.8 and 57.9 at age 9 y for daughters of overweight and normal-weight mothers, respectively. EAH: eating in the absence of hunger.

Means are significantly different between groups at P<0.05.