Table 3.
Demographics, BMI and weight status in children with ASD and NHANESa controls.
| Characteristic | Group
|
p-value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASD (N = 276) |
Controls (N = 544) |
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|
medianb (25th – 75th) |
medianb (25th – 75th) |
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|
|
|||
| Age (months) | 89 (70 – 112.5) | 90 (69.5 – 113) | 0.865 |
|
|
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| N (%) | N (%) | ||
|
|
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| Sex | |||
| Female | 43 (15.6%) | 85 (15.6%) | 0.987 |
| Male | 233 (84.4%) | 459 (84.4%) | |
| Race/Ethnicity | |||
| Non-Hispanic White | 193 (69.9%) | 384 (70.6%) | 0.993 |
| Non-Hispanic African American | 30 (10.9%) | 60 (11.0%) | |
| Hispanic | 24 (8.7%) | 46 (8.5%) | |
| Other | 29 (10.5%) | 54 (9.9%) | |
| Parent’s Highest Education | |||
| Less than 9th Grade | 3 (1.1%) | 5 (0.9%) | 1.00 |
| Some High School | 11 (4.0%) | 22 (4.0%) | |
| High School or GED equivalent | 44 (15.9%) | 86 (15.8%) | |
| Some College | 85 (30.8%) | 166 (30.5%) | |
| College Degree or Higher | 133 (48.2%) | 265 (48.7%) | |
| Era | |||
| 1999 – 2003 | 156 (56.5%) | 334 (61.4%) | 0.179 |
| 2004 – 2007 | 120 (43.5%) | 210 (38.6%) | |
|
|
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|
medianb (25th – 75th ) |
medianb (25th – 75th ) |
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|
|
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| BMI Percentile | 79.6 (54.9 – 93.6) | 62.8 (34.0 – 86.3) | < 0.001 |
|
|
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| N (%) | N (%) | ||
|
|
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| Overweight and Obese (≥85th percentile) | 117 (42.4%) | 142 (26.1%) | < 0.001 |
| Obese (≥95th percentile) | 59 (21.4%) | 65 (12.0%) | < 0.001 |
a
= National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey;
b
=Comparisons between groups for continuous measurements summarized with median (25th – 75th) were compared using Wilcoxon Rank-Sum test