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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 2.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Psychobiol. 2016 Nov 26;59(2):225–234. doi: 10.1002/dev.21492

TABLE 3.

BMI percentile categories for Mexican-origin children and adults, N = 102 This table reports BMI percentile categories for Mexican-origin children and adults in this study.

All youth (2–20) Boys Girls Adults (21+) Men Women Total
BMI percentile categories (N[%])
 Normal weight (<85th) 38 (63.3%) 20 (68.9%) 18 (58.1%) 30 (68.1%) 11 (84.6%) 19 (63.6%) 68 (65.4%)
 Overweight (85th–94th) 10 (16.7%) 3 (10.3%) 7 (22.6%) 5 (11.4%) 1 (7.7%) 4 (12.1%) 15 (14.4%)
 Obese (≥95th) 12 (20.0%) 6 (20.7%) 6 (19.4%) 9 (20.5%) 1 (7.7%) 8 (24.2%) 21 (20.2%)
Total N = 60 N = 29 N = 31 N = 44 N = 13 N = 31
57.7% 27.9% 29.8% 42.3% 12.5% 29.8%
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N = 102, no infants included one girl and one adult male missing.