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. 2010 Aug;140(8):1516–1523. doi: 10.3945/jn.109.120162

TABLE 1.

Description of the children and adolescents in the validation study1

Boys Girls All
n 32 28 60
Age, y 11.9 ± 4.1 11.4 ± 3.9 11.6 ± 4.0
Race/ethnicity, % white/black/Hispanic/Asian 22/31/47/0 21/21/54/4 22/27/50/1
Weight, kg 57.6 ± 29.4 50.0 ± 19.5 54.1 ± 25.3
Height, m 1.52 ± 0.25 1.45 ± 0.19 1.49 ± 0.22
BMI, kg/m2 23.0 ± 6.8 22.9 ± 5.7 22.9 ± 6.3
BMI Z-score 0.93 ± 1.20 1.02 ± 1.24 0.97 ± 1.21
Overweight (BMI ≥ 95th percentile), % 31 50 40
FFM, kg 42.5 ± 20.0 33.1 ± 11.1 38.2 ± 17.1
FM, kg 15.8 ± 12.1 18.5 ± 9.8 17.0 ± 11.1
FM, % weight 25.4 ± 9.0 34.7 ± 7.9 29.6 ± 9.8
1

Data are mean ± SD.