Effects of a Teacher-Centred, School-Based Intervention Program on Health Behavior and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Elementary School Children

Table 1

Descriptive characteristics of the sample at baseline and follow-up. Values are mean ± SD (exept for prevalences).

𝑁 (male, female)	Baseline		Follow-up
	Intervention; (244, 201)	Control; (259, 231)	Intervention; (244, 201)	Control; (259, 231)
Age (years)	7.6±0.4	7.5±0.4	8.8±0.4	8.8±0.4
Height (cm)	127.4±5.9	127.0±5.4	133.9±6.3	134.1±5.7
Weight (kg)	26.5±5.1	26.4±4.8	30.6±6.5	30.9±6.0
BMIPCT	49.1±29.4	51.0±28.1	51.3±29.9	53.6±28.8
% Overweight/; obese	13.9%	10.4%	14.6%	13.9%