Table 2.
BMI percentile categorya | Study A n = 329 |
Study B n = 570 |
Study C n = 362 |
Study D n = 274 |
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Totalc | Black | White | Totalc | Black | White | Totalc | Black | White | Totalc | Black | White | |
Percent | ||||||||||||
Underweight & healthy weight | 60 | 24 | 36 | 61 | 30 | 31 | 59 | 24 | 35 | 55 | 37 | 18 |
Overweight | 15 | 6 | 9 | 16 | 9 | 7 | 18 | 9 | 9 | 17 | 10 | 7 |
Obese | 21 | 11 | 10 | 18 | 9 | 9 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 19 | 13 | 6 |
Severely obese | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 4 |
Subset of Study A n = 98 |
Subset of Study B n = 121 |
Subset of Study C n = 67 |
Subset of Study D n = 56 | |||||||||
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Totalc | Black | White | Totalc | Black | White | Totalc | Black | White | Totalc | Black | White | |
Percent | ||||||||||||
Underweight & healthy weight | 54 | 18 | 36 | 61 | 30 | 31 | 61 | 31 | 30 | 57 | 46 | 11 |
Overweight | 20 | 9 | 11 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 18 | 8 | 10 | 18 | 7 | 11 |
Obese | 22 | 18 | 4 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 20 | 18 | 2 |
Severely obese | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
Children were categorized as underweight (< 5th percentile), healthy weight (≥ 5th to < 85th percentiles), overweight (≥ 85th to < 95th percentiles), obese (≥ 95th to < 99th percentiles), and severely obese (≥ 99th percentile) (25). For this article, the underweight and healthy weight categories were combined.
Each child in the subset was observed eating school-provided breakfast and school-provided lunch on one or more school days.
Percents were rounded to the nearest whole number, so “Total” values (across columns or rows) may not sum exactly.