Table 3.

Comparison of high blood pressure and body mass index in current study with two other recent publications^{9 10}

Study	Current study	Kropa et al9	Stiefel et al10
Years	2009–2017	2009–2012	2009–2013
Setting	Central New Jersey, suburban	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, urban	Jackson, Mississippi, urban+suburban
Total, N	906	2678	7705
Age, mean (years)	15.6	15.5	15.5
Sex (%)
Male	70	69	69
Female	30	31	31
Race/ethnicity (%)
Caucasian	76	16	32
African-American	4	71	66
Hispanic	7	5	1.2
Asian	6	7	0.5
Weight classification (%)
Obese	11	24	23
Overweight	19	20	20
Obese+overweight	30	44	43
Blood pressure
>95th percentile	15	14.8	21