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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 19.
Published in final edited form as: Prog Community Health Partnersh. 2011 Winter;5(4):363–373.

Table 1. Children’s Pre- and Post-Intervention Data.

Baseline Characteristics
Post-Intervention Characteristics
Variables Total, N (%) Boys, n (%) Girls, n (%) Total, N (%) Boys, n (%) Girls, n (%)
Number of Children Assessed 40 16 24 40 16 24
Mean Age in Years ± SD 8.15 ± 1.97 7.69 ± 1.96 8.46 ± 1.96
Attended>80% of Sessions 30 (75) 12 (75) 18 (75)
Underweight (<5th Percentile) 1 (3)
Normal BMI (5–84th Percentile) 18 (46) 7 (44) 11 (48) 19 (47) 6 (38) 13 (54)
Overweight (85–94th Percentile)* 10 (26) 5(31) 5(22) 11 (27) 5(31) 6(25)
Obese (≥95th Percentile)* 11 (28) 4(25) 7 (30) 9 (23) 4(25) 5(21)
Systolic BP Elevated (>90th Percentile) 5(13) 5(21) 2(5) 2 (8)
Diastolic BP Elevated (>90th Percentile) 7 (18) 2(13) 5(21) 2(5) 2 (8)

Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; BP, blood pressure; SD, standard deviation.

*

Age- and gender-specific percentile for body mass index.40

Age-, gender-, and height-specific percentile for blood pressure.41