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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 9.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Hum Biol. 2012 Mar 20;24(4):551–557. doi: 10.1002/ajhb.22269

TABLE 3.

Clustering of cardiometabolic risk factors in Samoan adolescents according to BMI category

Number of risk factors American Samoa
Samoa
Male (n = 123)
Female (n = 114)
Male (n = 90)
Female (n = 109)
<3 N (%) ≥3 N (%) <3 N (%) ≥3 N (%) <3 N (%) ≥3 N (%) <3 N (%) ≥3 N (%)
Normal 57 (98.3) 1 (1.7) 31 (100.0) 0 (0.0) 71 (100.0) 0 (0.0) 68 (100.0) 0 (0.0)
Overweight 20 (100.0) 0 (0.0) 35 (83.3) 7 (16.7) 17 (100.0) 0 (0.0) 32 (94.1) 2 (5.9)
Obese 24 (53.3) 21 (46.7) 23 (56.1) 18 (43.9) 1 (50.0) 1 (50.0) 6 (85.7) 1 (14.3)