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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Atherosclerosis. 2011 Jan 19;215(2):465–470. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2010.12.030

Table 1.

Subject physical characteristics and demographics

Boys
(n = 25)		 Girls
(n = 23)
Age (years) 14.2 ± 1.1 14.2 ± 0.7
Height (cm)* 169.1 ± 8.8 161.4 ± 6.6
Weight (kg) 56.0 ± 7.6 53.5 ± 8.9
Body mass index (kg/m2) 19.5 ± 1.5 20.4 ± 2.3
Body mass index percentile 48.7 ± 19.4 57.5 ± 25.2
Percent overweight 0.5 ± 7.6 5.1 ± 11.8
Mean carotid artery IMT (mm)* 0.52 ± 0.04 0.49 ± 0.04
Socioeconomic status 51.0 ± 7.9 46.8 ± 6.4

Data are mean ± SD

*

Boys significantly different than girls (p ≤ 0.05)

SES: socioeconomic status. An SES of 40 through 50 is equivalent to medium size business owners, minor professionals and technical jobs, such as computer programmers, real estate agents, sales managers, social workers and teachers.

IMT: intima-media thickness