Perinatal Factors Associated with Cardiovascular Disease Risk among Preschool-Age Children in the United States: An Analysis of 1999–2008 NHANES Data

Table 2

Demographic characteristics of 3,644 3-to-6-year-olds in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999–2008.

	𝑁	Weighted 𝑁	Percent	95% CI
Gender
Boys	1,865	7,399,751	50.9	48.6–53.2
Girls	1,779	7,135,318	49.1	46.8–51.4
Age (years)
3	922	3,493,552	24.0	22.1–26.0
4	976	3,701,859	25.5	23.5–27.4
5	887	3,581,816	24.6	22.7–26.6
6	859	3,757,841	25.9	23.9–27.8
Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White	1,138	9,000,820	61.9	58.2–65.7
Hispanic	1,416	3,285,391	22.6	19.5–25.7
Non-Hispanic Black	1,090	2,248,857	15.5	13.0–17.9
Total	3,644	14,535,068