. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jul 15.

Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2008 Aug;40(8):1501–1505. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e31816d6591

Table 1.

Descriptive characteristics of the participants.

	n	Age (yr)	Body Weight (kg)	BMI (kg-nT⁻²)	BMI (Percentile)
Female	19	9.3 ±1.3	34.4 ± 7.8	18.7 ±3.5	64.1 ±31.3
Male	19	8.9 ±1.4	33.8 ± 8.4	18.7 ±3.3	71.1 ±23.8
	n	Age ^* (yr)	Body Weight (kg)	BMI (kg-m⁻²)	BMI (Percentile)
Grade 2	13 (6F, 7M)	7.5 + 0.9	29.8 ± 7.7^†	18.4 ±3.9	68.2 ± 28.2
Grade 3	7 (2F, 5M)	8.9 ± 0.2	35.0 ± 3.7	19.4 ±2.5	83.4 ±11.6^‡
Grade 4	11 (6F, 5M)	9.9 ± 0.5	37.6 ± 7.7	18.9 ±2.9	70.2 ± 23.7
Grade 5	7 (5F, 2M)	10.8 ±0.3	35.7 ± 9.7	17.9 ±4.0	46.4 ± 34.9
TOTAL	38 (19F, 19M)	9.1 ±1.3	34.1 ± 8.0	18.7 ±3.3	NA

Values are means ± SD.

Age is different between all grades (P < 0.05).

^†

Grade 2 is different from 4 (P < 0.05).

^‡

Grade 3 is different from 5 (P < 0.05).

NA not applicable because percentiles are ordinal data.