. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 1.

Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2010 Oct 14;19(5):982–987. doi: 10.1038/oby.2010.249

Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of obese adolescents with and without binge eating (BE)

Characteristics	BE^* (N = 20)	Non-BE (N = 62)	P
Age, years	14.1 (1.2)	14.1 (1.2)	0.97
Weight, kg	103 (16)	103 (15)	0.99
BMI, kg/m²	38.4 (3.8)	37.5 (3.8)	0.37
BMI z-score	2.5 (0.2)	2.4 (0.2)	0.12
Waist circumference, cm	110 (12)	109 (11)	0.74
Gender, N (%)
Male	10 (37%)	17 (63%)	0.06
Female	10 (18%)	45 (82%)	0.06
Race, N (%)
Non-Caucasian	7 (19%)	30 (81%)	0.30
Caucasian	13 (29%)	32 (71%)	0.30
Treatment Group, N (%)
Placebo	13 (33%)	26 (67%)	0.07
Drug	7 (16%)	36 (84%)	0.07

Values shown are mean (SD) or number (N) of participants.

BE represents a collapsed variable including participants meeting full criteria for BED, as well as those who met sub-threshold criteria. These two conditions were collapsed into a single BE sample, due to a lack of difference between groups.