. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 13.

Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2007 Apr;15(4):1004–1011. doi: 10.1038/oby.2007.599

Table 4.

Subject characteristics and the number of total and obese subjects in each age and sex group^†

Subject characteristics	Boys (n = 148) (mean ± SD)	Girls (n = 99) (mean ± SD)
Age (yrs)^*	7.1 ± 2.2	6.0 ± 1.9
Weight (kg)^*	32.5 ± 13.5	25.0 ± 8.2
Height (cm)^*	128.8 ± 14.4	120.5 ± 13.7
Waist (cm)^*	60.1 ± 12.1	54.0 ± 6.9
Trunk fat-DXA (kg)^*	4.6 ± 4.0	3.1 ± 2.3
Total fat-DXA (kg)^*	9.6 ± 8.2	6.7 ± 4.8
% body fat	25.8 ± 12.3	25.2 ± 9.4
Age	Boys [total (obese)]	Girls [total (obese)]
3 yrs	8 (1)	11 (0)
4 yrs	14 (4)	17 (4)
5 yrs	19 (1)	11 (2)
6 yrs	17 (2)	21 (2)
7 yrs	24 (3)	16 (2)
8 yrs	21 (8)	12 (3)
9 yrs	17 (9)	7 (1)
10 yrs	22 (4)	4 (0)
11 yrs	6 (2)	0 (0)
Total sample	148 (34)	99 (14)

SD, standard deviation.

Significant sex difference (p < 0.05) from t test.

^†

The international cut-off points for obesity between 2 and 18 years of age were used to define obesity in the sample (23). Each age-sex cell presents the total number of subjects and the number of obese subjects (in parentheses).