Effect of Adolescent Obesity on Cardiometabolic Risk in African-Americans and Caucasians

Table 1

Subject characteristics according to race and obesity group (mean ± SE).

	Lean		Overweight		Obese
	African-; American	Caucasian	African-; American	Caucasian	African-; American	Caucasian
Number	12	22	4	6	9	5
Age (years)	13.4±1.0	13.2±0.7	12.5±1.5	13.5±0.8	12.8±0.9	15.4±1.3
BMI kg m^−2	21.0±0.8	19.7±0.7	22.3±0.8	24.6±1.0	28.8±1.4	28.0±0.8
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)	112±4	104±2	122±1	109±3	110±5	105±6
Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)	58±3	53±1	62±3	59±2	51±3	51±3
Triglyceride (mg/dL)	54±10	48±4	44±6	55±6	72±14	112±30
LDL (mg/dL)	97±8	89±4	99±11	108±9	108±7	106±7
HDL (mg/dL)	47±4	50±3	62±9	52±5	42±5	34±2