Table 1.

Depressive Symptom of 51 Age-, Race-, and Sex-matched Pairs of Severely Obese and Normal Weight Youth+

	Severely Obese				Normal weight
High Depressive Symptoms	N	%	N Discordant		N	%	N Discordant		P value¶
Year 0	5	9.8	5		5	9.8	5		1.00
Year 2	14	27.5	9		13	25.5	8		1.00
Year 3	4	7.8	4		1	2.0	1		0.38
CESD*	Mean	SD	Min	Max	Mean	SD	Min	Max	P valueψ
Year 0	14.0	6.5	0	28	11.9	5.6	3	28	0.10
Year 2	18.1	10.4	5	44	14.2	9.0	2	31	0.08
Year 3	9.5	7.9	2	46	6.3	5.0	0	27	0.02

+ 67% of the pairs (N=34) were female and 72.5% (N=37) non-Hispanic black

^¶p value derived from McNemar’s test which is based on discordant pairs.

^*Includes only data from the 46 pairs where neither subject was on antidepressant medication

^ψp value derived from Wilcoxon Signed Rank test of severely obese and normal weight age, race and sex matched pairs