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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pediatr. 2018 Jun 28;200:84–90.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2018.05.011

Table 4.

Distribution of intelligence, executive function, language, achievement test scores in each category of BMI centile at 10 years. These are column percents.

IQ Z-score Child’s BMI centile at 10 years Row
N
< 85 85, < 95 ≥ 95
DAS-II Verbal reasoning ≤ −2 18 16 14 146
> −2, ≤ −1 18 18 19 158
DAS-II Nonverbal reasoning ≤ −2 15 12 16 126
> −2, ≤ −1 25 26 20 209
Executive Function
DAS-II Working memory ≤ −2 18 18 14 152
> −2, ≤ −1 18 14 16 147
NEPSY-II Auditory Attention ≤ −2 22 25 23 186
> −2, ≤ −1 22 17 18 175
NEPSY-II Auditory Response Set ≤ −2 19 19 22 165
> −2, ≤ −1 28 22 32 231
NEPSY-II Inhibition Inhibition ≤ −2 35 25 33 281
> −2, ≤ −1 22 28 26 198
NEPSY-II Inhibition Switching ≤ −2 27 27 32 226
> −2, ≤ −1 29 24 32 239
NEPSY-II Animal Sorting ≤ −2 27 28 35 239
> −2, ≤ −1 31 30 25 258
Processing Speed
NEPSY-II Inhibition Naming ≤ −2 31 27 32 262
> −2, ≤ −1 18 22 28 169
Visual Perception
NEPSY-II Arrows ≤ −2 25 23 33 218
> −2, ≤ −1 23 24 22 193
NEPSY-II Geometric Puzzles ≤ −2 17 13 15 138
> −2, ≤ −1 22 23 23 191
Fine Motor Function
NEPSY-II Visuomotor Precision ≤ −2 19 18 27 172
> −2, ≤ −1 36 32 31 300
Language
OWLS Listening Comprehension ≤ −2 19 16 17 158
> −2, ≤ −1 26 28 31 229
OWLS Oral Expression ≤ −2 20 15 17 160
> −2, ≤ −1 23 21 23 189
Academic Achievement
WIAT-III Word reading ≤ −2 13 10 9 102
> −2, ≤ −1 17 17 18 146
WIAT-III Pseudoword decoding ≤ −2 14 13 17 122
> −2, ≤ −1 16 14 21 142
WIAT-III Spelling ≤ −2 11 10 9 91
> −2, ≤ −1 16 17 13 133
WIAT-III Numeric operations ≤ −2 16 14 14 134
> −2, ≤ −1 23 23 24 198
Maximum column N 653 106 101 860