Table 1.
Comparison of baseline and follow-up characteristics between adolescents who perceived themselves as overweight (74% girls, 26% boys), despite not being overweight versus those who did not perceive themselves as overweight (50.6% girls, 49.4% boys). (n = 1196).
| Baseline characteristics | Follow-up characteristics | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Self-perceived | No self-perceived | P value | Self-perceived | No self-perceived | P value | |||||
| overweight | overweight | overweight | overweight | |||||||
| SD | SD | SD | SD | |||||||
| BMI | 21.8 | 1.7 | 20.4 | 1.7 | N.S. | 26.5 | 3.8 | 24.4 | 3.3 | <0.001 |
| Height | 166.9 | 8.1 | 169.9 | 8.3 | N.S. | 170.3 | 8.0 | 173.7 | 9.1 | <0.001 |
| Weight | 60.8 | 6.9 | 59.0 | 7.1 | N.S. | 77.0 | 13.3 | 74.0 | 13.0 | <0.001 |
| WC | 71.9 | 5.5 | 70.0 | 5.9 | N.S. | 90.7 | 11.3 | 85.5 | 10.5 | 0.005 |
| Age | 15.9 | 1.8 | 15.9 | 1.8 | N.S. | 27.3 | 1.9 | 27.2 | 1.9 | N.S. |
Baseline BMI, height, weight, and WC are age adjusted.
BMI: body mass index in kg/m2 and WC (waist circumference) in centimetres.
N.S.: not significant.