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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 11.
Published in final edited form as: P R Health Sci J. 2011 Jun;30(2):58–64.

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics and BMI of the study subjects

Characteristics Elementary children
High school children
Total (n=94)
mean (SD)		 Girls (n=54)
mean (SD)		 Boys (n=40)
mean (SD)		 Total (n=89)
mean (SD)		 Girls (n=47)
mean (SD)		 Boys (n=42)
mean (SD)
Age (y) 10.4 (0.9) 10.3 (0.8) 10.5 (1.0) 15.9 (0.7) 15.8 (0.8) 16.1 (0.5)
Weight (kg) 40.8 (12.4) 40.9 (12.2) 40.8 (12.7) 62.9 (14.5) 59.5 (13.7) 66.8 (14.6)*
Height (cm) 140.3 (9.5) 141.4 (9.3) 138.9 (9.7) 163.8 (10.9) 157.9 (7.8) 170.9 (9.7)*
BMI (kg/m2) 20.6 (5.0) 20.3 (4.9) 21.0 (5.2) 23.4 (5.1) 23.9 (5.2) 22.9 (5.1)
*

Significantly different than girls by Wilcoxon test at p<0.05;

SD: Standard Deviation