. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 1.

Published in final edited form as: Am J Prev Med. 2015 Jul 3;49(5):753–756. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2015.04.015

Table 1.

Risk Factor Prevalence Among Urban Public Elementary School Children

	All	Boys	Girls	Grade
				2	3	4	5
N	212	108	104	44	57	50	61
% Overweight: BMI ≥85th and <95th percentile	12.7	13.0	12.5	11.4	14.0	16.0	9.8
% Obese: BMI ≥95th percentile	18.4	18.5	18.3	18.2	15.8	20.0	19.7
% Abdominally obese: WC ≥90th percentile	18.4	16.7	20.2	20.5	14.0	24.0	16.4
% Elevated BP: SBP or DBP ≥90th percentile or BP ≥120/80 mm Hg	4.2	3.7	4.8	6.8	3.5	2.0	4.9
% Low fitness: VO_2max <Healthy Fitness Zone^®	29.0	28.3	28.8

Note: Data are reported as percentages per stratum. Low fitness was determined using the 20-meter Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Run (PACER) in a subsample of 100 students (46 boys, 54 girls) aged ≥ 10 years. Use of the Healthy Fitness Zone® standards was permitted by The Cooper Institute, Dallas, TX.

WC, waist circumference; BP, Blood pressure; SBP, systolic blood pressure; DBP, diastolic blood pressure.