Table 1. Descriptive characteristics of ISCOLE participants stratified by sex and study site (n=7341).
| Country (site) | n |
Age (years) |
Obesity (%) |
BMI z-score |
Body fat (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | Boys | Girls | |
| Australia (Adelaide) | 243 | 285 | 10.4 (0.5) | 10.3 (0.6) | 11.5 | 9.5 | 0.6 (1.1) | 0.6 (1.1) | 18.9 (6.5) | 23.9 (7.2) |
| Brazil (São Paulo) | 277 | 287 | 10.0 (0.5) | 10.0 (0.5) | 28.9 | 14.6 | 1.0 (1.5) | 0.7 (1.3) | 21.3 (9.6) | 24.7 (8.4) |
| Canada (Ottawa) | 238 | 327 | 10.1 (0.4) | 10.0 (0.4) | 14.3 | 10.1 | 0.6 (1.2) | 0.3 (1.2) | 18.7 (7.2) | 21.9 (7.3) |
| China (Tianjin) | 293 | 258 | 9.4 (0.5) | 9.4 (0.5) | 33.4 | 12.8 | 1.1 (1.6) | 0.3 (1.3) | 20.2 (8.0) | 20.7 (8.1) |
| Colombia (Bogotá) | 454 | 462 | 10.0 (0.6) | 10.0 (0.7) | 7.9 | 3.7 | 0.3 (1.1) | 0.1 (1.0) | 18.4 (5.7) | 21.6 (5.5) |
| Finland (Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa) | 253 | 282 | 10.0 (0.5) | 10.0 (0.4) | 7.5 | 3.6 | 0.3 (1.1) | 0.2 (1.0) | 16.9 (6.2) | 20.9 (6.8) |
| India (Bangalore) | 292 | 328 | 10.0 (0.6) | 10.0 (0.6) | 12.3 | 8.5 | 0.2 (1.5) | 0.3 (1.3) | 19.5 (7.5) | 23.7 (7.0) |
| Kenya (Nairobi) | 262 | 301 | 9.7 (0.7) | 9.8 (0.7) | 7.3 | 6.0 | 0.1 (1.3) | 0.0 (1.2) | 16.1 (7.0) | 17.1 (8.5) |
| Portugal (Porto) | 358 | 419 | 10.0 (0.2) | 10.0 (0.3) | 21.5 | 14.1 | 1.0 (1.2) | 0.8 (1.1) | 20.5 (7.2) | 24.9 (7.1) |
| South Africa (Cape Town) | 222 | 327 | 9.9 (0.7) | 9.8 (0.7) | 10.4 | 11.0 | 0.2 (1.3) | 0.3 (1.3) | 17.7 (7.2) | 22.8 (7.8) |
| United Kingdom (Bath and NE Somerset) | 237 | 287 | 10.4 (0.5) | 10.4 (0.5) | 10.1 | 9.4 | 0.5 (1.1) | 0.4 (1.2) | 18.2 (6.4) | 23.3 (6.7) |
| United States (Baton Rouge) | 281 | 368 | 9.6 (0.7) | 9.5 (0.6) | 19.6 | 18.2 | 0.9 (1.4) | 0.8 (1.3) | 20.9 (8.5) | 24.9 (7.9) |
Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; ISCOLE, International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment.