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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Obes. 2020 Jul 26;16(2):e12699. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.12699

TABLE 1.

Cohort Characteristics, by Weight status and sex

Overweighta
Obesea
Females Males P (F v M) Females Males
8294 8289 8453 9891 5P (across
all groups)
n (% of cohort) 23.7% 23.7% 24.2% 28.3% p (F v M)
BMI-Z during follow-up (median, IQR) 1.23 (1.14-1.35) 1.25 (1.15-1.37) .04 1.85 (1.64-2.15) 1.86 (1.64-2.16) 0.2 <.001
Age (Years) at start of follow-up (median, IQR) 11.9 (10.7-13.7) 11.6 (10.6-13.6) .003 10.9 (10.4-11.7) 10.9 (10.4-11.8) 0.2 <.001
Family history of diabetes, n (%) 383 (4.6%) 303 (3.7%) .08 881 (10.4%) 776 (7.8%) < 0.001 <.001
Number of visits (median, IQR) 2 (1–3) 2 (1-3) <.001 4 (3-5) 4 (3-5) 0.3 <.001
Years of follow-up (median, IQR) 1.44 (0.00-3.39) 1.21 (0.00-3.10) <.001 4.16 (2.55-5.79) 4.05 (2.44-5.66) < 0.001 <.001
PCOS, n (% of females) 37 (0.4%) 154 (1.8%) <.001
Race/ethnicity, n (%)
NHW 4754 5039 .2 3570 5063 0.05 <.001
57.3% 60.8% 42.2% 51.2%
NHB 2247 2008 3662 3246
27.1% 24.2% 43.3% 32.8%
Hispanic 405 327 518 593
4.9% 3.9% 6.1% 6.0%
Asian/Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander/American Indian/Alaskan Native 192 216 143 220
2.3% 2.6% 1.7% 2.2%
Other 696 699 560 769
8.4% 8.4% 6.6% 7.8%
a

Overweight: BMI-Z 1.04 to 1.63 at all visits during follow-up; obese: BMI-Z ≥1.64 at least once during follow-up, otherwise 1.04 to 1.63.

Note: P values determined by Kruskal-Wallis test by ranks with Dunn test and Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons.

Abbreviations: IQR, interquartile range; NHA, non-Hispanic white; NHB, non-Hispanic black; PCOS, polycystic ovary syndrome.