Perceived Difficulty with Physical Tasks, Lifestyle, and Physical Performance in Obese Children

Table 1

Anthropometric data, lifestyle behaviors, and physical fitness of the study population.

	Normal-weight	Overweight	Obese
Number	165	54	163
Male/female	76/89	25/29	79/84
Age (years)	9.8±1.7	9.6±1.8	9.8±2.3
Height (cm)	138.6±10.8	142.2±10.7	143.9±13.1^∗∗∗
Weight (kg)	34.8±8.8	46.3±10.6	62.1±18.3^§
BMI-SDS	−0.17±0.94	1.34±0.17	2.28±0.42^§
Sports participation n (%)	109 (66.1)	34 (63.0)	79 (48.5)**
Sedentary behaviors (h/day)	3.1±2.2	3.0±2.2	3.0±2.1
6MWD (meter)	603.0±67.1	591.2±65.0	532.7±61.1^#
Resting HR (bpm)	86.2±17.1	87.6±18.6	90.6±15.1^∗
Post-6WMT HR (bpm)	140.6±29.9	148.9±28.7	144.6±25.5

∗P = 0.05 obese versus normal-weight children; **P = 0.005 obese versus normal-weight and overweight children; ***P < 0.001 obese versus normal-weight children; ^#P < 0.001 obese versus normal-weight and overweight children; §P < 0.001 obese versus normal-weight and overweight children; overweight versus normal-weight.