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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2017 Apr;49(4):813–822. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000001158

Table 2.

Participant characteristics

5-8y (n=25) 9-12y (n=32) Total (n=57)
Age (y) 7.0 ± 1.2 10.9 ± 1.2 9.2 ± 2.3
Sex
  Boys (n) 11 (44.0%) 17 (53.1%) 28 (49.1%)
  Girls (n) 14 (56.0%) 15 (46.9%) 29 (50.9%)
Height (cm) 123.0 ± 8.9 146.0 ± 9.2 135.9 ± 14.6
Body mass (kg) 24.1 ± 4.0 39.4 ± 9.9 32.7 ± 10.9
BMI percentile 52.8 ± 24.3 53.5 ± 31.9 53.2 ± 28.6
  Overweight (n) 2 (8.0%) 5 (15.6%) 7 (12.3%)
  Obese (n) - 2 (6.6%) 2 (3.5%)
Race
  Caucasian (n) 24 (96.0%) 30 (93.8%) 54 (94.7%)
  Asian (n) 1 (4.0%) 2 (6.2%) 3 (5.3%)

Characteristics of the participants are presented as mean ± SD, distributions of the sample are presented in numbers (n) and percentages.