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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2019 Nov;51(11):2243–2250. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0000000000002061

TABLE 2.

Mean (SD) differences in cardiorespiratory fitness quantified using different methods for children with and without obesity.

Without Obesity With Obesity P
Absolute V.O2max (L·min−1) 1.52 (0.34) 1.68 (0.42) 0.13
Relative to body weight V.O2max (mL·kg−1 BM·min−1) 39.8 (7.3) 26.5 (3.2) <0.001
Relative to LBM V.O2max (mL·kg−1 LBM·min−1) 53.4 (7.4) 48.2 (5.9) 0.009
Percent of predicted V.O2max based on
 LBM (Cooper et al. 2016) 104 (13) 90 (11) <0.001
 Age (Armstrong et al. 1994) 92 (14) 102 (21) 0.046
 Measured BM (Cooper et al. 1984) 98 (12) 61 (11) <0.001
 Ideal BM at 50th CDC BMI percentile (Cooper et al. 1984) 103 (12) 102 (17) 0.88
 Ideal BM at 85th CDC BMI percentile (Cooper et al. 1984) 98 (12) 86 (15) 0.003
 Measured BM (Cooper et al. 2016) 96 (13) 59 (8) <0.001
 Ideal BM at 50th CDC BMI percentile (Cooper et al. 2016) 101 (12) 101 (15) 0.84
 Ideal BM at 85th CDC BMI percentile 96 (13) 84 (13) 0.001