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Published in final edited form as: Appetite. 2011 Nov 10;58(1):347–353. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2011.11.005

Table 1.

Descriptive characteristics by racial/ethnic groups (mean, SD or n%)

	AA (n=100)	EA (n=119)	HA (n=86)
Age (y)	9.7 (1.4)	9.7(1.6)	9.4 (1.5)
% Female	45.3	48.4	47.7
Tanner 3 (%)	23.6^a	7.4^b	9.3^b
SES	38.2 (10.7)^b	49.0 (9.8)^a	26.0 (12.1)^c
BMI %	63.0 (27.7)^b	59.7 (27.1)^b	77.2 (19.5)^a
% fat	20.5 (9.6) ^b	22.3 (8.4) ^b	28.2 (8.4) ^a
TAAT (cm²)	10.6 (9.5)^b	12.1 (9.4)^b	16.5 (8.4)^a
EUADM	0.15±0.01^c	0.96±0.01^a	0.35±0.02^b
AFADM	0.82±0.01^a	0.01±0.00^c	0.09±0.01^b

^{a, b, c}

superscripts indicate significant differences among self-identified racial/ethnic category

EA=European American; AA=African American; HA=Hispanic American; SES=Socioeconomic status; BMI%=BMI-for-age percentile, TAAT=Total Abdominal Adipose Tissue; EURADM=European admixture; AFADM=African Admixture