. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 1.

Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Obes. 2017 Oct 12;13(6):365–373. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.12250

Table 1.

Characteristics of participants (total n= 152).

Characteristics	n (%) or mean ± SD
Sex
Male	68 (45%)
Ethnicity
Chinese	73 (48%)
Malay	51 (34%)
Indian	28 (18%)
Age at measurement, y	5.0 ± 0.1
Body weight, kg	18.4 ± 3.2
Height, cm	108.8 ± 4.7
Abdominal circumference, cm	52.3 ± 5.2
BMI z-score	0.02 ± 0.92
Fat mass, kg
QMR	3.9 ± 1.7^***
ADP	4.4 ± 1.7
Fat mass index, kg/m²
QMR	3.3 ± 1.3^***
ADP	3.7 ± 1.3

^***

P< 0.001; P-values were derived from paired t-test comparing fat mass and fat mass index based on QMR and ADP (similarly, all P< 0.001 for Wilcoxon signed-rank tests, a non-parametric equivalent of paired t-test). ADP, air displacement plethysmography; QMR, quantitative magnetic resonance.