Table 2.
Body Size of Participants at Each Follow-up
| Body size at age 9–11 |
Body size at age 15–17 |
Body size at age ∼50 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal weight | Overweight | Obese | Normal weight | Overweight | Obese | Normal weight | Overweight | Obese | |
| Body size at age 5 | |||||||||
| Normal weight (n = 325)a | 270 | 21 | 3 | 246 | 19 | 1 | 84 | 128 | 113 |
| Overweight (n = 56) | 29 | 15 | 8 | 31 | 10 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 34 |
| Obese (n = 19) | 2 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 13 |
| Body size at age 9–11 | |||||||||
| Normal weight (n = 379) | 303 | 20 | 4 | 106 | 142 | 131 | |||
| Overweight (n = 51) | 23 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 35 | |||
| Obese (n = 29) | 7 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 24 | |||
| Body size at age 15–17 | |||||||||
| Normal weight ( = 335) | 100 | 131 | 104 | ||||||
| Overweight (n = 38) | 1 | 5 | 32 | ||||||
| Obese (n = 20) | 0 | 3 | 17 | ||||||
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Numbers in brackets indicate the number of participants in each body size category at the age of measurement. In some instances, the numbers in the table cells at the subsequent follow-up period do not do up to the number in the brackets because of missing data at the follow-up.