Table 3.

Effect of adolescent body weight on the Health Utilities Index: Ambulation Scale score from OLS regression models

	(standard error in parenthesis)
	(1) Female n=2252	(2) Female n=2252	(3) Male n=1914	(4) Male n=1914
Underweight	0.012 (0.009)	0.009 (0.009)	0.000 (0.007)	−0.001 (0.007)
Risk of Overweight	−0.007 (0.006)	−0.001 (0.006)	−0.013 (0.005) ***	−0.011 (0.005) **
Overweight	−0.035 (0.010) ***	−0.021 (0.010) **	−0.017 (0.007) ***	−0.014 (0.007) **
Log Income (1957)	−0.003 (0.004)	−0.003 (0.004)	−0.001 (0.003)	−0.001 (0.003)
Grades 8–11	0.012 (0.008)	0.012 (0.008)	0.005 (0.006)	0.005 (0.006)
High School	0.008 (0.008)	0.007 (0.008)	0.009 (0.006)	0.009 (0.006)
Some College	0.011 (0.010)	0.007 (0.010)	0.015 (0.007) **	0.014 (0.007) *
Poor Child Health	−0.020 (0.007) ***	−0.020 (0.007) ***	−0.004 (0.006)	−0.004 (0.006)
Overweight Adult BMI		−0.012 (0.006) **		−0.004 (0.005)
Obese Adult BMI		−0.057 (0.007) ***		−0.011 (0.006) *
Underweight Adult BMI		−0.080 (0.028) ***
Constant	0.992 (0.037) ***	1.012 (0.037) ***	0.991 (0.027) ***	0.995 (0.028) ***
R-squared	0.013	0.041	0.009	0.011

^***p<0.01,

^**p<0.05,

^*p<0.1

Reference groups = Normal weight in adolescence; Less than 8^th grade education; Normal weight Adult BMI