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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Obes (Lond). 2014 Jan 31;38(7):944–949. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2014.18

Table 2.

Effects of Sex, Ethnicity and Sleep Duration on Body Mass Index for Participants in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health

MODEL 1 MODEL 2 MODEL 3

Intercept 15.57*** (0.50) 16.73*** (0.60) 15.89*** (0.70)
Age 0.40*** (0.03) 0.38*** (0.03) 0.38*** (0.03)
Puberty
    Yes [referent category is prepubescence] 0.45*** (0.11) 0.43*** (0.11) 0.37*** (0.11)
Sex
    Male [referent category is female] 0.32** (0.11) 0.33** (0.11) 2.50*** (0.52)
Ethnicity
    Black 1.11*** (0.14) 1.08*** (0.14) 0.33 (0.70)
    Hispanic 0.74*** (0.17) 0.74*** (0.17) 1.42 (0.76)
    Asian [referent category is White] −1.06*** (0.19) −1.09*** (0.19) −1.45 (1.06)
Sleep Duration −0.10** (0.03) −0.01 (0.05)
2-Way Interactions
        Sex by Ethnicity
    Male*Black −1.67*** (0.28)
    Male*Hispanic −0.37 (0.34)
    Male*Asian 0.87* (0.38)
        Sex by Sleep Duration
    Male*Sleep −0.25*** (0.07)
        Ethnicity by Sleep Duration
    Black*Sleep 0.21* (0.09)
    Hispanic*Sleep −0.06 (0.10)
    Asian*Sleep −0.02 (0.13)
*

p<0.05

**

p<0.01

***

p<0.001

standard errors in parentheses