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. 2023 Feb 22;131(2):027005. doi: 10.1289/EHP11372

Table 1.

Participant characteristics of adolescents from the Study of Latino Adolescents at Risk (SOLAR) cohort (recruited between 2001 and 2012) and young adults from the Southern California Children’s Health Study (CHS; recruited between 2014 and 2018).

General characteristics SOLAR CHS p-Value
Sample size (n) 312 137
Sex [female; n (%)] 133 (40) 61 (40) 0.79
Age [y (mean±SD)] 11.3±1.7 19.4±1.3
BMI [kg/m2 (mean±SD)] 28.2±5.8 29.6±4.7 0.0051
Puberty status [n (%)]
 Prepuberty (Tanner stage 1) 99 (32)
 Puberty (Tanner stages 2–4) 193 (62)
 Postpuberty (Tanner stage 5) 20 (6)
Ethnicity [n (%)] <2×1016
 Hispanic 312 (100) 79 (58)
 Non-Hispanic 0 (0) 58 (42)
Study wave [n (%)]
 Wave 1 (2001–2003) 234 (75)
 Wave 2 (2010–2012) 78 (25)
Socioeconomic status
 Modified Hollingshead Four-Factor Index (mean±SD) 17.9±10.1
 Household education level [n (%)] 7.6×1031
  Did not graduate high school 146 (47) 25 (18)
  High school graduate 89 (29) 21 (15)
  Partial college (1 y) or specialized training 36 (12) 36 (26)
  Completed college/university 0 (0) 37 (27)
  Graduate professional training 3 (1) 14 (10)
  Missing 34 (11) 4 (3)

Note: p-Values not reported for variables that were only measured in one cohort. —, not applicable; BMI, body mass index; NA, not applicable; SD, standard deviation.