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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Appetite. 2014 Jul 18;82:138–142. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2014.07.018

Table 1.

Characteristics of adolescents based on number of obese parents.

Number of obese parents
Variable 0 (N = 58) 1 (N = 54) 2 (N = 18) p
Age (years) 15.4 ± 1.1 15.0 ± 0.9 15.0 ± 1.1 0.043
Tanner stage 4.3 ± 0.8 4.3 ± 0.6 4.4 ± 0.7 0.643
Baseline BMI 20.7 ± 2.1 20.6 ± 1.8 21.1 ± 2.0 0.562
Baseline zBMI 0.09 ± 0.7 0.17 ± 0.6 0.36 ± 0.6 0.289
Mother BMI 24.2 ± 3.2 29.5 ± 6.5 39.4 ± 6.4 < 0.0001
Father BMI 25.3 ± 2.3 31.6 ± 5.0 37.9 ± 5.8 < 0.0001
Sex (M/F) 23/35 28/26 9/9 0.413
Minority (Minority/Non-minority) 11/47 11/43 5/13 0.725
Highest parent education (years) 15.8 ± 2.7 16.2 ± 2.7 14.7 ± 2.8 0.107
Reinforcing value tasks
 Food reinforcement (log Pmax) 3.01 ± 1.0 3.08 ± 1.1 3.04 ± 1.1 0.945
 Monetary reinforcement (log Pmax) 4.04 ± 1.3 3.94 ± 1.6 3.97 ± 1.2 0.935

Note - Data are mean ± SD. P-values are based on ANOVA or Chi-Square tests comparing between groups based on the number of obese (BMI > 30) parents. N=53 for tanner staging for adolescents with one obese parent; N=57 for father BMI and money p max for adolescents with no obese parents.