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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 20.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2008 Feb 28;16(5):1072–1077. doi: 10.1038/oby.2008.16

Table 1.

Participant characteristics at baseline, mean ± SD

Characteristics Boys
(n=84)		 Girls
(n=76)
Age (years) 11.2 ± 1.6 11.2 ± 1.8
Weight (kg) 62.5 ± 16.8 65.6 ± 20.1
Height (M) 150.7 ± 10.9 149.4 ± 11.2
BMI (kg/m2) 27.3 ± 4.6 28.8 ± 5.4
BMI Z-score 2.0 ± 0.4 2.1 ± 0.4
BMI percentile 96.8 ± 3.3 97.2 ± 2.9
Total body fat (kg) 23.1 ± 9.0 26.2 ± 10.3*
Total lean tissue mass (kg) 37.0 ± 9.2 36.9 ± 9.9
Tanner stage (1-5) 1.7 ± 1.0 2.97 ± 1.4***
VO2max (mL/min) 2292.6 ± 574.1 2043.6 ± 475.0**
VO2max (mL/kg/min) 37.5 ± 6.9 32.1 ± 5.1***
VO2max (mL/kg FFM/min) 58.4 ± 5.8 52.6 ± 5.5***

For gender:

*

p<0.05,

**

p<0.01,

***

p<0.001