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Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Obes. 2013 Jan 7;9(1):43–52. doi: 10.1111/j.2047-6310.2012.00135.x

Table 1.

Comparison of baseline characteristics and anthropometric measurements.

	Female		Male		P-value
	African American (n=43)	White American (n=34)	African American (n=39)	White American (n=42)	P-value
Age (years)	13.6 ± 2.0	13.2 ± 2.4	13.4 ± 2.3	12.7 ± 2.4	0.415 ^a
Tanner Stage					0.020 ^b
1	0% (0/43)	6% (2/33)	0% (0/37)	5% (2/40)
2	14% (6/43)	18% (6/33)	35% (13/37)	48% (19/40)
3	26% (11/43)	30% (10/33)	22% (8/37)	10% (4/40)
4	26% (11/43)	21% (7/33)	27% (10/37)	25% (10/40)
5	35% (15/43)	24% (8/33)	16% (6/37)	12% (5/40)
Height (cm)	160.8 ± 7.1	157.5 ± 7.3	162.9 ± 13.3	160.0 ± 11.9	0.178 ^a
Weight (kg)	67.3 ± 16.9	60.6 ± 19.0	68.7 ± 23.4	61.7 ± 20.0	0.200 ^a
BMI percentile	81.2 ± 23.7	73.2 ± 30.6	82.1 ± 22.4	77.1 ± 25.8	0.419 ^a
BMI z-score	1.2 ± 1.0	0.9 ± 1.2	1.3 ± 1.0	1.1 ± 1.0	0.383 ^a
Body fat (% total mass)	33.8 ± 10.4	34.9 ± 10.6	28.4 ± 12.4	28.2 ± 12.9	0.021 ^a
Truncal fat (% total mass)	14.6 ± 5.8	15.2 ± 7.1	12.4 ± 6.6	12.2 ± 7.0	0.117 ^a

Data are presented as mean and standard deviation or percentage and number.

Differences between values measured by ANOVA for continuous variables (^a) or Pearson chi-square test for categorical variables (^b).