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Table 1 Descriptive characteristics for all, by gender and by weight status a in 11-year-old Norwegian adolescents

From: Correlates of weight status among Norwegian 11-year-olds: The HEIA study

Characteristics

All

Girls

Boys

p

Non-overweight

Overweight/obese

p

(n = 1103)

(n = 555)

(n = 548)

(n =962)

(n = 141)

Girls (% (n))

50 (555)

   

50 (482)

52 (73)

0.7

Age (years)

11.2 (0.3)

11.2 (0.3)

11.2 (0.3)

0.4

11.2 (0.3)

11.2 (0.3)

1.0

Weight (kg)

39.8 (8.0)

40.3 (8.1)

39.2 (7.9)

0.03

37.8 (5.9)

53.4 (7.4)

<0.001

Height (cm)

148.7 (7.0)

149.2 (7.3)

148.1 (6.6)

0.01

148.2 (6.9)

151.8 (6.9)

<0.001

BMI (kg/m2)

17.9 (2.7)

18.0 (2.7)

17.8 (2.7)

0.2

17.1 (1.7)

23.1 (2.1)

<0.001

Overweight/obesity a (% (n))

13 (141)

13 (73)

12 (68)

0.7

   

Pubertal score (% (n))

   Pre-puberty

18.3 (202)

8.5 (46)

31.5 (156)

 

19.4 (176)

19.8 (26)

 

   Early-puberty

33.9 (374)

20.2 (109)

53.4 (265)

 

37.0 (335)

30.0 (39)

 

   Mid/late/post puberty

41.7 (460)

71.3 (385)

15.1 (75)

<.001

43.5 (395)

50.4 (66)

0.2

Parental education (% (n))

   ≤12 years

29.1 (321)

30.2 (163)

29.6 (158)

 

28.1 (264)

42.5 (57)

 

   13-16 years

34.8 (384)

33.0 (178)

38.6 (206)

 

36.1 (339)

33.6 (45)

 

   >16 years

33.5 (369)

36.9 (199)

31.8 (170)

0.1

35.9 (337)

23.9 (32)

<0.001

SSB (dl/week)

10.2 (10.9)

8.7 (9.1)

11.7 (12.3)

<.001

10.1 (10.6)

10.9 (12.9)

0.5

SSB (dl/weekday)

1.1 (1.6)

1.0 (1.3)

1.4 (1.9)

<.001

1.1 (1.6)

1.3 (2.2)

0.3

SSB (dl/weekend day)

2.2 (1.9)

2.0 (1.7)

2.4 (2.1)

.001

2.2 (1.9)

2.2 (2.0)

0.7

Sum snacks (times/week) b

4.5 (4.4)

4.1 (3.4)

4.9 (5.2)

0.01

4.5 (4.5)

4.2 (4.2)

0.5

Breakfast daily (% (n))

90 (996)

90 (499)

91 (497)

0.4

92 (876)

85 (120)

0.01

TV(hrs/day/week)

1.7 (1.0)

1.6 (0.9)

1.7 (1.0)

0.005

1.6 (0.9)

2.1 (1.2)

<0.001

TV(hrs/weekday)

1.4 (1.0)

1.4 (1.0)

1.5 (1.0)

0.02

1.4 (0.9)

1.9 (1.2)

<0.001

TV(hrs/weekend day)

2.2 (1.2)

2.1 (1.1)

2.3 (1.3)

0.001

2.1 (1.2)

2.6 (1.4)

<0.001

Computer game (hrs/day/wk)

1.2 (0.9)

1.0 (0.8)

1.4 (1.0)

<.001

1.1 (0.9)

1.4 (1.0)

<0.001

Computer game (hrs/weekday)

1.1 (0.9)

0.9 (0.8)

1.2 (1.0)

<.001

1.0 (0.9)

1.4 (1.1)

0.001

Computer game (hrs/weekend day)

1.5 (1.1)

1.2 (1.0)

1.8 (1.1)

<.001

1.4 (1.1)

1.7 (1.2)

0.013

Sedentary time (min/day)

490.0 (67.5)

493.8 (66.9)

486.1 (68.0)

0.06

488.4 (67.6)

500.5 (66.3)

0.05

Light activity (min/day)

225.8 (43.1)

224.9 (40.6)

226.9 (45.3)

0.5

225.6 (42.5)

225.2 (46.5)

0.9

MVPA (min/day)

67.5 (23.3)

60.6 (18.5)

74.5 (25.6)

<.001

68.4 (23.6)

61.5 (20.9)

<0.001

PA total (cpm)

512.3 (166.7)

474.9 (140.2)

550.1 (182.2)

<.001

517.9 (165.8)

473.7 (168.4)

0.003

PA weekday (cpm)

548.4 (178.9)

508.9 (164.2)

588.3 (184.3)

<.001

553.0 (180.6)

516.5 (163.5)

0.02

PA weekend (cpm)

463.2 (235.1)

428.8 (188.7)

498.0 (270.0)

<.001

471.3 (235.2)

407.7 (227.2)

0.003

  1. Values are Mean (SD), except for overweight/obesity, puberty, parental education and breakfast % (n). The numbers (n) vary slightly for the different measures.
  2. a Age and gender specific cutoffs for overweight/obesity at age from 10.5 to 12.5 as defined by International Obesity Task Force [31].
  3. b Sum of intake of chocolate/candy, salty snacks, cookies, buns/cakes/pastry. SSB = sugar-sweetened-beverages, MVPA = moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, PA = physical activity, P = t-test/chi-square (between genders and weight status).
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