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Table 1 Pre-intervention characteristics by group

From: The Healthy Start project: a randomized, controlled intervention to prevent overweight among normal weight, preschool children at high risk of future overweight

 

Intervention group (n (%))

Shadow control group* (n (%))

Control group (n (%))

Boys

150 (55.4)

376 (56.6)

166 (61.0)

Girls

121 (44.6)

288 (43.4)

106 (39.0)

High birth weight only

163 (60.2)

384 (57.8)

173 (63.6)

Maternal pre-pregnancy overweight only

74 (27.3)

152 (22.9)

68 (25)

Low socioeconomic status only

8 (3.0)

74 (11.1)

8 (2.9)

High birth weight and maternal pre-pregnancy overweight

24 (8.9)

46 (6.9)

17 (6.3)

High birth weight and low socioeconomic status

1 (0.4)

6 (0.9)

4 (1.5)

Maternal pre-pregnancy over weight and low socioeconomic status

1 (0.4)

0 (0.0)

1 (0.4)

High birth weight and maternal pre-pregnancy over weight and low socioeconomic status

0 (0.0)

2 (0.3)

1 (0.4)

  1. * = n is the number of participants from which information on weight development is obtained from GP’s, and is hence not the final number of participants in control group 1.