. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 2.

Published in final edited form as: J Child Health Care. 2009 Oct 15;13(4):333–346. doi: 10.1177/1367493509344823

Table 1.

Baseline Demographics

N = 178	# or mean (% or SD) [range]
Female	86 (48%)
Age (years)	9.8 (0.9) [7.9 to 12.2]
BMI (kg/m²)	20.9 (4.9) [13.4 to 36.8]
BMI z-score^*	1.01 (1.05) [-2.8 to 2.8]
Normal Wt	86 (48%)
Overweight	32 (18%)
Obese	60 (34%)
Race
Latino	86 (48%)
Asian	46 (26%)
African-American	32 (18%)
White	1 (1%)
Other/Unknown	13 (7%)

BMI z-scores of 0, 1.036 and 1.645 are equivalent to the 50^th, 85^th and 95^th percentiles, respectively. A BMI z-score of 2.31 or greater is above the 99^th percentile.