Overweight among Four-Year-Old Children in Relation to Early Growth Characteristics and Socioeconomic Factors

Table 4

BMI, length and weight at birth as well as height at four years of age for children with and without overweight (including the obese).

	No overweight${}^{*}$	Overweight${}^{*}$	$P$-value
	N = 255	N = 54
BMI at birth	Mean 13.61	Mean 14.06	.02
	$\text{M}:\text{n}$ 13.54	$\text{M}:\text{n}$ 14.08
	SD 1.36	SD 1.35
Length at birth	Mean 0.50	Mean 0.51	.2
	$\text{M}:\text{n}$ 0.51	$\text{M}:\text{n}$ 0.51
	SD 0.02	SD 0.02
Weight at birth	Mean 3.49	Mean 3.67	.04
	$\text{M}:\text{n}$ 3.49	$\text{M}:\text{n}$ 3.63
	SD 0.50	SD 0.57
Height at 4 years of age	Mean 1.05	Mean 1.07	.001
	$\text{M}:\text{n}$ 1.05	$\text{M}:\text{n}$ 1.07
	SD 0.04	SD 0.05

${}^{*}$:  at 4 years of age BMI:  Body Mass Index SD:  Standard deviation $\text{M}:\text{n}$:  Median