. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 27.

Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2009 Aug 27;18(2):402–409. doi: 10.1038/oby.2009.261

Table 1.

Anthropometric parameters in 92 obese adolescents

	All	Black males	Nonblack males	Black females	Nonblack females
N	92	5	28	14	45
Median (25th–75th percentile)
Age (years)	14.6 (13.7–15.8)	14.0 (13.5–14.2)	14.7 (13.8–15.8)	15.0 (13.9–16.1)	14.4 (13.6–15.5)
Weight (kg)	100.1 (88.6–113.6)	100.6 (89.4–123.2)	101.5 (87.6–113.0)	108.2 (95.1–118.6)	95.8 (88.5–113.4)
BMI (kg/m²)	35.87 (32.37–39.66)	36.23 (33.69–36.55)	33.00 (31.22–37.11)	41.24 (34.90–44.33)	36.77 (32.86–39.66)
BMI z-score	2.34 (2.14–2.54)	2.49 (2.40–2.54)	2.27 (2.15–2.56)	2.44 (2.24–2.56)	2.34 (2.12–2.52)
Waist (UMB) (cm)	104.0 (96.9–112.8)	103.1 (101.4–113.4)	104.7 (98.0–112.9)	107.3 (91.7–118.8)	103.6 (96.5–111.8)
Waist (NHANES) (cm)	111.4 (104.1–118.5)	115.4 (104.4–119.2)	110.1 (97.0–117.9)	113.1 (102.1–128.5)	110.5 (106.5–117.5)
DXA fat:total mass, %	41.4 (35.9–44.0)	35.0 (34.6–41.3)	35.8 (33.2–42.1)	42.7 (39.9–46.5)	42.1 (40.2–44.9)
CT-IP fat area, cm²	72 (46–94)	64 (61–77)	83 (48–116)	60 (36–88)	72 (46–93)
CT-SQ fat area, cm²	498 (419–600)	472 (465–498)	478 (400–565)	572 (430–673)	504 (425–607)
Tanner score n (%)
Pubic hair
1–2	5 (5)	0 (0)	5 (18)	0 (0)	0 (0)
3	17 (18)	2 (40)	11 (39)	1 (7)	3 (7)
4	30 (33)	3 (60)	6 (21)	4 (29)	17 (38)
5	40 (43)	0 (0)	6 (21)	9 (64)	25 (56)
Genital/breast^a
1–2	3 (3)	0 (0)	3 (11)	0 (0)	0 (0)
3	21 (23)	3 (60)	10 (37)	1 (7)	7 (16)
4	30 (33)	2 (40)	9 (33)	1 (7)	18 (40)
5	37 (41)	0 (0)	5 (19)	12 (86)	20 (44)

CT-IP, intraperitoneal fat measured by computed tomography; CT-SQ, subcutaneous fat measured by computed tomography; DXA, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry; NHANES, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; UMB, umbilicus.

Genital score for males, breast score for females. Not recorded for one nonblack male.