Table 3.
Descriptive characteristics of the study sample
| Subjects, | Overall | Adult obesity classa |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | I | II | III | ||
| (n = 69) | (n = 144) | (n = 195) | |||
| Age, years | 408 | 41.3±14.2 | 39.8±14.5 | 41.0±13.7 | 42.1±14.5 |
| Female sex | 408 | 308 (76) | 48 (70) | 109 (76) | 151 (77) |
| BMI | 408 | 40.5±6.2 | 33.1±1.4 | 37.5±1.5 | 45.4 (±5.2) |
| Blood pressure, mm Hg | 396 | ||||
| Systolic | 140±18 | 137±16 | 138±16 | 142±19 | |
| Diastolic | 81±13 | 79±13 | 82±12 | 82±13 | |
| Nationality | 408 | ||||
| Native | 295 (72.3) | 49 (71.0) | 111 (77.1) | 135 (69.2) | |
| Western background | 24 (5.9) | 3 (4.3) | 11 (7.6) | 10 (5.1) | |
| Non-Western background | 89 (21.8) | 17 (24.6) | 22 (15.3) | 50 (25.6) | |
| Education level | 361 | ||||
| Low | 20 (5.5) | 2 (3.5) | 6 (4.7) | 12 (6.9) | |
| Middle | 197 (54.6) | 26 (45.6) | 69 (53.5) | 102 (58.3) | |
| High | 144 (39.9) | 29 (50.9) | 54 (41.9) | 61 (34.9) | |
| Menarcheal age, years | 301 | 12.0 (11.0–15.0) | 12.0 (10.9–15.1) | 12.5 (11.0–14.0) | 12.0 (11.0–15.0) |
| Sleeping, h/night | 311 | 7.1±1.4 | 7.1±1.4 | 7.1±1.3 | 7.1±1.4 |
| <6.0 | 45 (14.5) | 8 (17.0) | 18 (16.2) | 19 (12.4) | |
| 6.0–8.0 | 170 (54.7) | 22 (46.8) | 59 (53.2) | 89 (58.2) | |
| ≥8.0 | 96 (30.9) | 17 (36.2) | 34 (30.6) | 45 (29.4) | |
| Birth weight, g | 272 | 3,402±744 | 3,423±698 | 3,361±805 | 3,428±711 |
| <4,000 | 219 (80.5) | 37 (80.4) | 87 (83.7) | 95 (77.9) | |
| ≥4,000 | 53 (19.5) | 9 (19.6) | 17 (16.3) | 27 (22.1) | |
Data are shown as numbers (%), means ±SD, or medians (10th to 90th percentile).
a
According to the WHO classification of adult obesity [24], i.e., class I, BMI between 30.00 and 34.99; class II, BMI between 35.00 and 39.99; and class III, BMI equal to or greater than 40.00.