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Table 1 Characteristics of participants

From: Sizing the association between lifestyle behaviours and fatness in a large, heterogeneous sample of youth of multiple ethnicities from 4 countries

  

New Zealand

Fiji

Tonga

Australia

  

Pacific

Maori

Asian

European

Indigenous Fijian

Fijian Indian

Tongan

Australian

N

 

830

370

138

239

612

833

1019

1673

Sex

Male

405 (48.8)

161 (43.5)

64 (46.4)

119 (49.8)

271 (44.3)

388 (46.6)

471 (46.2)

1006 (60.1)

Female

425 (51.2)

209 (56.5)

74 (53.6)

120 (50.2)

341 (55.7)

445 (53.4)

548 (53.8)

667 (39.9)

TV watching

<1 hour/day

252 (30.4)

97 (26.2)

26 (18.8)

88 (36.8)

224 (37.3)

205 (26.3)

579 (56.8)

698 (41.7)

1-2 hours/day

241 (29.0)

120 (32.4)

51 (37.0)

66 (27.6)

196 (32.7)

272 (34.8)

268 (26.3)

562 (33.6)

>2 hours/day

337 (40.6)

153 (41.4)

61 (44.2)

85 (35.6)

180 (30.0)

304 (38.9)

172 (16.9)

413 (24.7)

Soft drink consumption

0 cans/day

119 (15.5)

73 (21.0)

39 (29.1)

98 (42.1)

154 (25.2)

173 (20.8)

325 (31.9)

904 (54.0)

>0-2 cans/day

508 (66.0)

216 (62.1)

79 (59.0)

117 (50.2)

373 (61.1)

537 (64.5)

562 (55.2)

703 (42.0)

>2 cans/day

143 (18.6)

59 (17.0)

16 (11.9)

18 (7.7)

84 (13.8)

122 (14.7)

132 (13.0)

66 (4.0)

Breakfast consumption

0-2 days

271 (36.1)

128 (38.1)

37 (30.3)

54 (24.6)

129 (21.1)

117 (14.1)

163 (16.0)

190 (11.4)

3-4 days

248 (33.1)

101 (30.1)

22 (18.0)

49 (22.3)

113 (18.5)

115 (13.9)

337 (33.1)

240 (14.4)

5 days

231 (30.8)

107 (31.9)

63 (51.6)

117 (53.2)

370 (60.5)

597 (72.0)

519 (50.9)

1243 (74.3)

After-school physical activity

0-1 days

199 (24.0)

101 (27.3)

63 (45.7)

97 (40.6)

165 (27.5)

222 (28.1)

362 (35.5)

361 (21.6)

2-3 days

294 (35.4)

141 (38.1)

47 (34.1)

77 (32.2)

202 (33.7)

264 (33.4)

329 (32.3)

747 (44.7)

4-5 days

337 (40.6)

128 (34.6)

28 (20.3)

65 (27.2)

233 (38.8)

305 (38.6)

328 (32.2)

565 (33.8)

Age (years)

 

15.0 ± 1.5

14.8 ± 1.4

15.3 ± 1.6

15.4 ± 1.5

15.5 ± 1.3

15.4 ± 1.2

15.1 ± 2.0

14.6 ± 1.4

BMI (kg/m2)

 

25.1 ± 4.8

24.0 ± 4.9

20.4 ± 2.9

21.6 ± 3.5

21.7 ± 2.6

18.9 ± 2.8

22.4 ± 3.3

20.7 ± 2.8

BMIz

 

1.37 ± 0.94

1.08 ± 1.06

0.00 ± 1.00

0.37 ± 0.94

0.40 ± 0.72

-0.67 ± 1.06

0.71 ± 0.77

0.30 ± 0.86

%BF

 

30.4 ± 10.9

29.6 ± 11.9

21.7 ± 9.6

24.7 ± 10.6

20.4 ± 8.7

22.4 ± 8.5

22.5 ± 9.6

26.2 ± 7.9

TFM (kg)

 

22.9 ± 13.0

21.5 ± 13.6

12.2 ± 7.1

15.7 ± 9.6

12.3 ± 6.3

11.2 ± 5.7

14.1 ± 7.7

15.0 ± 6.2

  1. BMI = Body mass index; BMIz = BMI z-score; %BF = Percent body fat; TFM = Total fat mass; Values are sample size (column %) or mean ± standard deviation.