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Published in final edited form as: Diabetologia. 2009 Jun 23;52(10):2064. doi: 10.1007/s00125-009-1428-2

Table 1.

Childhood Size and Growth Velocities in 3, 5 and 8 year old children in the Diabetes Autoimmunity Study in the Young (DAISY)

	Age 3 (Mean (SD))	Age 5 (Mean (SD))	Age 8 (Mean (SD))
	N = 1,319	N = 1,140	N = 796
Height (cm)^a	97.06 (4.25)	110.94 (4.78)	130.86 (5.95)
Weight (kg)^a	14.78 (1.68)	20.34 (2.95)	29.44 (5.90)
BMI (kg/m²)^a	16.04 (1.08)	15.85 (1.42)	16.83 (2.38)
Height growth velocity (change in cm per year)	6.84 (0.54)	6.75 (0.56)	6.63 (0.57)
Weight growth velocity (change in cm per year)	2.78 (0.84)	2.81 (0.91)	2.96 (1.01)
BMI growth velocity (change in kg / m² · year)	−0.26 (0.29)	0.08 (0.32)	0.58 (0.47)

Best linear unbiased predictor (BLUP) estimates of height, weight, or BMI.