Research Article

Change and Stability in Sibling Resemblance in Obesity Markers: The Portuguese Sibling Study on Growth, Fitness, Lifestyle, and Health

Table 2

Individual siblings tracking (ICCitrk) coefficients and 95% CI within sib-ships for the obesity markers with twins and without twins data.

Tracking coefficients%BF ICCitrk (95% CI)WC ICCitrk (95% CI)BMI ICCitrk (95% CI)

Brother-brother0.90 (0.83–0.95)0.96 (0.92–0.98)0.97 (0.94–0.98)
Sister-sister0.91 (0.81–0.96)0.97 (0.93–0.99)0.75 (0.57–0.87)
Brother-sister0.97 (0.94–0.98)0.93 (0.87–0.97)0.73 (0.55–0.85)