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Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2008 Feb 28;16(5):1072–1077. doi: 10.1038/oby.2008.16

Table 3.

Effects of Predictors on Total Fat Mass (kg) from Linear Mixed Effects Regression (n=160)

Effect of predictors on total fat at age 11
Predictors	Estimate (SE)
Intercept	23.95 (0.72)^***
Gender (male=0, female=1)	2.78 (1.11)^*
Lean tissue mass (kg)	0.48 (0.5)^***
Tanner stage (1-5)	-0.46 (0.26)⁺
Age (yrs)	-0.28 (0.29)
Baseline cardiorespiratory fitness (VO_2max)	0.002 (0.001)⁺
Effect of predictors on total fat mass over age
Predictors	Estimate (SE)
Gender (male=0, female=1)	1.66 (0.31)^***
Lean tissue mass (kg)	-0.0002 (0.01)
Tanner stage (1-5)	-0.27 (0.10)^**
Baseline cardiorespiratory fitness (VO_2max)	-0.001 (0.0004)^**
Baseline cardiorespiratory fitness (VO_2max) ^* Gender	0.002 (0.0005)^***

⁺

p<0.10,

p<0.05,

^**

p<0.01,

^***

p<0.001