. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jul 20.

Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2008 Jul 17;16(10):2266–2271. doi: 10.1038/oby.2008.347

Table 1.

Demographic information of youth with extreme obesity (n = 145)

	N	Mean (s.d.)	%	Range
Age		15.3 (1.7)		11–18
Sex
Girls	99		68
Boys	46		32
Race
White	76		52
Black	66		45
Hispanic	1		1
Other	2		1
Anthropometrics
BMI		50.6 (9.6)		40–89
zBMI		2.8 (.24)		2.3–3.7