Intra-familial and ethnic effects on attitudinal and perceptual body image: a cohort of South African mother-daughter dyads

Table 1 Physical characteristic of the mothers and their daughters according to ethnicity

	Black (n = 44)		Mixed ancestry (n = 64)		White (n = 60)
	Mothers	Girls	Mothers	Girls	Mothers	Girls
Age (years)	38.5 ± 9.0	10.5 ± 0.9^b	38.4 ± 4.7^a	10.1 ± 0.7	41.5 ± 4.6^a	9.9 ± 0.8^b
BMI (kg/m ² women) and WHO BMI (% girls)	32.1 ± 7.1^cd	56.7 ± 32.8	26.1 ± 4.5^c	58.8 ± 29.2	25.2 ± 4.0^d	60.9 ± 25.5
Body fat (%)	34.7 ± 6.3^ab	24.7 ± 5.3	32.4 ± 4.9^a	24.3 ± 4.7	31.6 ± 4.8^b	24.9 ± 4.4

Values are expressed as Means ± Standard Deviations: Matching superscripts present significant differences between groups: ^ab p < 0.05, ^c ^dp< 0.001

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