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Table 1 Participant characteristics

From: Associations of total and abdominal adiposity with risk marker patterns in children at high-risk for cardiovascular disease

 

Overall

Non-obese (BMI < 95%)

Obese (BMI ≥ 95%)

Non-abdominally obese (WC < 90%)

Abdominally obese (WC ≥ 90%)

% (n)

100 (107)

57 (61)

43 (46)

67 (72)

33 (35)

Age, y (sd)

13.3 (2.7)

13.5 (2.9)

13.0 (2.5)

13.7 (3.0)

12.4 (2.2)*

Race/ethnicity

     

% White (n)

82 (88)

90 (55)

72 (33)*

85 (61)

77 (27)

% Black (n)

5.6 (6)

3.3 (2)

8.7 (4)

5.6 (4)

5.7 (2)

% Other racial group (n)

12.1 (13)

6.6 (4)

19.6 (9)*

9.7 (7)

17.1 (6)*

% Exposed to tobacco smoke (n)

19 (20)

8 (5)

33 (15)*

13 (9)

31 (11)*

% Family history of CHD (n)

51 (55)

51 (31)

52 (24)

53 (38)

49 (17)

Screen time, hours^(sd)

2.7 (2.3)

2.4 (1.7)

3.1 (2.9)

2.8 (2.5)

2.5 (1.9)

BMI percentile (n)

80 (23)

68 (24)

97 (1)*

72 (24)

97 (2)*

BMI, kg/m 2 (sd)

25 (6)

21 (3)

30 (5)*

22 (4)

30 (6)*

WC percentile (n)

87 (16)

54 (23)

91 (6)*

58 (23)

95 (0)*

WC, cm (sd)

71 (26)

77 (11)

99 (14)*

80 (13)

100 (15)*

Total cholesterol, mg/dL^ (sd)

214 (50)

220 (52)

205 (47)

218 (52)

205 (47)

% High, ≥200 mg/dL (n)

58 (62)

59 (36)

57 (26)

58 (42)

57 (20)

LDL cholesterol, mg/dL^ (sd)

137 (50)

145 (50)

127 (49)*

143 (50.0)

126 (48)

% High, ≥ 130 mg/dL (n)

46.7 (50)

47.5 (29)

45.7 (29)

50.0 (36)

40.0 (14)

HDL cholesterol, mg/dL^ (sd)

53 (14)

57 (12)

48 (15)*

54 (13)

50 (17)

% Low, < 50 mg/dL (n)

19 (18)

7 (4)

33 (15)*

13 (9)

29 (10)*

Triglycerides, mg/dL^ (sd)

118 (75)

93 (57)

152 (83)*

105 (69)

147 (80)*

% High, ≥ 130 mg/dL (n)

34 (36)

16 (10)

57 (26)*

26 (19)

49 (17)*

VLDL cholesterol, mg/dL^ (sd)

24 (15)

19 (11)

30 (17)

21 (14)

29 (17)

Lp(a)^, mmol/L (sd)

39 (43)

39 (43)

39 (43)

40 (45)

37 (39)

hs-CRP, mg/L^ (sd)

0.1 (0.2)

0.1 (0.1)

0.2 (0.2)*

0.1 (0.2)

0.2 (0.2)*

ICAM-1, ng/L^ (sd)

295 (86)

282 (95)

312 (71)*

278 (90)

331 (65)*

P-selectin, ng/L^ (sd)

136 (46)

129 (46)

145 (46)

131 (46)

146 (46)

TNF alpha, pg/L^ (sd)

2140 (590)

2041 (501)

2271 (675)

2001 (499)

2425 (665)*

SBP, mmHg (sd)

112 (11)

111 (10)

114 (13)

112 (11)

113 (13)

% SBP > 95 th percentile (n)

14 (15)

12 (7)

17 (8)

13 (9)

17 (6)

DBP, mmHg (sd)

63 (7)

62 (8)

64 (6)

63 (8)

63 (6)

% DBP > 95 th percentile (n)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

  1. Caption: All continuous variables are presented as mean (standard deviation [sd]). All categorical variables and percentiles are presented as % (n). ^variables were log-transformed prior to testing for differences. *p value for comparisons < 0.05. Other racial groups were defined as Asian, Hispanic, Pacific Islander, and Native American.
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