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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 15.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Obes (Lond). 2008 Nov 25;33(1):37–41. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2008.228

Table 5.

Estimated covariates effects for BMI

Variables Estimate Standard error (s.e.) P-value
Height −6.617 0.093 <0.0001
Height2 0.125 0.004 <0.0001
Height3 −0.0008 0.00004 <0.0001
Age −0.589 0.217 0.0068
Age2 0.035 0.010 0.0003
Age3 −0.0004 0.0001 0.0004
Sex −0.226 0.187 0.2294
Race
    African-American 1.341 0.522 0.0106
    American Indian/Alaska Native 2.170 0.043 <0.0001
    Asian −0.520 0.496 0.2946
    White −0.430 0.232 0.0640
    Hispanic 1.061 0.439 0.0160
    South American Indian 1.220 0.612 0.0468
    Mixed 0.179 0.323 0.5796

Abbreviation: BMI, body mass index.