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Table 1 Demographic and anthropometric characteristics at baseline in intervention and control schools.

From: Why did soft drink consumption decrease but screen time not? Mediating mechanisms in a school-based obesity prevention program

 

girls

boys

Characteristics

intervention

group

(n = 248)

control

group

(n = 188)

intervention

group

n = (213)

control

group

(n = 205)

mean (sd) age, y

12.6 (0.4)

12.7 (0.5)

12.7 (0.5)

12.8 (0.5)

ethnicity, No. non western (%)

29 (12)

21 (11)

25 (12)

34 (17)

mean (sd) BMI, kg/m 2

19.0 (3.0)

19.5 (3.4)

19.0 (2.6)

19.3 (2.9)

overweight, No. (%) a

35 (14)

33 (18)

21 (10)*

62 (15)

obese, No. (%) a

8 (3)

7 (4)

4 (2)

8 (2)

  1. a using cut-off values described by Cole et al. [16].
  2. * significantly different from the control group (p = 0.01)