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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Contemp Clin Trials. 2017 May 4;58:40–46. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2017.05.005

Table 3.

Baseline characteristics of students with a BMI ≥ 85th percentile for age and sex

Arm 1
N=3,814
Arm 2
N=4,091
P Total
N=7,905
Female, % 45% 46% 0.60 46%
Race <0.001
  Hispanic students, % 67% 71% 69%
  Non-Hispanic white students, % 13% 12% 13%
  Non-Hispanic Asian students, % 12% 8% 9%
  Non-Hispanic black students, % 5% 8% 7%
BMI, mean (SD) 24.1 (3.9) 24.6 (4.2) <0.001 24.4 (4.1)
BMI z-score, mean (SD) 1.74 (0.43) 1.76 (0.43) 0.015 1.75 (0.43)
Students with BMI ≥95th percentile, % 55% 56% 0.384 56%