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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Clin Nutr. 2011 May 11;65(8):952–958. doi: 10.1038/ejcn.2011.56

Table 2.

Anthropometric and physical activity measurements

Intervention Group Comparison Group P3

Baeseline
n=29
Follow-up
n=22
Difference
n=221,5
P2 Baseline
n=23
Follow-up
n=14
Difference
n=141,5
P2
Weight (kg) 83.5± 12.8
(64.4-112.3)
82.0± 13.5
(63.0-
110.8)
−1.6± 2.0 0.001 84.2± 14.8
(59.1-120.8)
82.1± 14.0
(58.3-100.1)
0.2± 2.2 0.77 0.018
Waist Measurement
(cm)
98.2± 11.2
(78.7-117.6)
94.1± 11.6
(74.4-
116.2)
−4.4± 3.5 <0.001 102.7± 10.9
(83.0-133.0)
97.2± 11.8
(83.9-126.3)
−2.8± 4.5 0.04 0.23
BMI (kg/m2) 31.6± 4.7
(25.5-41.8)
30.7± 4.7
(23.7-39.5)
−0.7± 0.8 <0.001 31.6± 5.4
(25.3-47.8)
30.7± 4.3
(25.4-37.2)
0.1± 0.9 0.75 0.009
% Body Fat4 33.3± 2.6
(28.3-39.1)
32.0± 2.4
(29.1-38.1)
−1.5± 0.8 <0.001 34.0± 2.8
(29.7-38.8)
34.5± 2.6
(30.3-38.9)
−0.5± 1.4 0.32 0.029
Minutes moderate-
vigorous physical
activity / day5
83 ± 46
(15 – 209)
103 ± 51
(44 – 216)
19 ± 47 0.10 77 ± 60
(6 – 288)
79 ± 59
(13 – 228)
16 ± 48 0.25 0.86

Data are presented as mean ± s.d, with ranges in parentheses.

1

For those participants who completed both baseline and follow-up measurements

2

Repeated Measures ANOVA

3

One Way ANOVA

4

% Body Fat measurements successful in n=21 (baseline) and n=17 (follow-up) for the intervention group and n=15 (baseline) and n=9 (follow-up) for the comparison group

5

Participants wearing the SenseWear monitor for a minimum of 4 days: n=28 at baseline and n=19 at follow-up for the intervention group, and n=20 at baseline and n=14 at follow-up for the comparison group.