TABLE 2.

Characteristics of children participating in a study that tested the effects of increasing the portion size of a vegetable served as a first course on meal intake¹

	Boys (n = 22)		Girls (n = 29)
Characteristic	Mean ± SEM	Range	Mean ± SEM	Range
Age (y)	4.3 ± 0.2	3.1–5.8	4.5 ± 0.2	3.2–6.1
Weight (kg)	18.8 ± 0.8	13.8–24.6	17.9 ± 0.6	14.0–24.8
Height (cm)	106.4 ± 1.8	94.9–121.9	105.5 ± 1.4	94.7–119.7
BMI z score2	0.6 ± 0.3	−1.3–2.3	0.4 ± 0.1	−1.1–1.7
Sex-specific BMI-for-age percentile2	64.8 ± 6.8	10.5–99.0	62.6 ± 4.4	14.3–96.0

¹There were no significant differences (t test) between boys and girls for any characteristic.

²Calculated from height, weight, and age (25).