Table 1 |
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Descriptive characteristics of study participants (n = 213) |
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Characteristic Girls' Ethnicity |
n |
% |
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Race/ethnicity |
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African American |
51 |
23.9 |
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Hispanic |
50 |
23.5 |
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Asian |
23 |
10.8 |
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White |
88 |
41.3 |
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Other |
1 |
0.5 |
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Family income |
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< $50,000 |
46 |
21.6 |
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≥ $50,000 |
167 |
78.4 |
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Girls' Overweight status (BMI ≥ 85th percentile for age) |
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Not overweight |
149 |
70.0 |
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Overweight |
64 |
30.0 |
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mean |
range |
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Age at baseline (in years) |
7.4 |
6.5-8.1 |
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Age of birth mother |
40.0 |
22.0-54.0 |
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Girls' weight in kg |
27.2 |
16.8-57.3 |
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Girls' body mass index (BMI) |
17.23 |
12.2-29.0 |
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Deardorff et al. BMC Pediatrics 2012 12:27 doi:10.1186/1471-2431-12-27 |
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