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Table 2. Modal class membership tabulated against birth cohort, with column percentages, for each child sex.

	Boys		Girls
	1958 NCDS	2001 MCS	1958 NCDS	2001 MCS
Lower normal weight	3861 (57.4)	2447 (37.7)	3047 (48.1)	1780 (27.9)
Higher normal weight	1605 (23.9)	1505 (23.2)	1926 (30.4)	1981 (31.1)
Normal weight increasing to overweight	831 (12.4)	1432 (22.1)	913 (14.4)	1570 (24.6)
Overweight decreasing to normal weight	197 (2.9)	235 (3.6)	309 (4.9)	386 (6.1)
Overweight increasing to obesity	233 (3.5)	874 (13.5)	141 (2.2)	658 (10.3)