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Published in final edited form as: J Acad Nutr Diet. 2011 Dec 22;112(1):10.1016/j.jada.2011.08.037. doi: 10.1016/j.jada.2011.08.037

Table 2.

Information about body mass index (BMI) percentile category^a for fourth-grade children from four cross-sectional studies in Augusta, GA during four school years (1999-2000 through 2002-2003), by study and race for the total sample and for the subset^b.

BMI percentile category^a	Study A n = 329			Study B n = 570			Study C n = 362			Study D n = 274
	Total^c	Black	White	Total^c	Black	White	Total^c	Black	White	Total^c	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
	Total^c	Black	White	Total^c	Black	White	Total^c	Black	White	Total^c	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 (< 5^th percentile), healthy weight (≥ 5^th to < 85^th percentiles), overweight (≥ 85^th to < 95^th percentiles), obese (≥ 95^th to < 99^th percentiles), and severely obese (≥ 99^th 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.