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Table 2 Health risk information at age 17

From: Does adjusting for biological maturity when calculating child weight status improve the accuracy of predicting future health risk?

 

Boys

Mean (SD)

Girls

Mean (SD)

Total

Mean (SD)

Age (years)

17·70 (0.35)

17·72 (0.37)

17·71 (0.36)

Cardiometabolic risk scorea

0·62 (2.25)

-0·61 (2.18)

0·01 (2.30)

BMI category

N(%)b

N(%)b

N(%)b

Healthy weight

471 (75)

609 (80)

1080 (78)

Overweight

81 (13)

84 (11)

165 (12)

With obesity

80 (13)

68 (9)

148 (11)

  1. aLower values indicate lower risk
  2. breported % are of participants providing data for each variable, not the full sample