Clinical Study
Accuracy of Neck Circumference in Classifying Overweight and Obese US Children
Table 1
Descriptive statistics of the included participants (
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| | Anthropometric measures |
Boys () |
Girls () | | M | SD | M | SD |
| | Age (yrs) | 9.8 | 2.0 | 9.6 | 1.8 | | Height (cm) | 146.1 | 14.6 | 140.6 | 10.1 | | Weight (kg) | 40.2 | 15.5 | 34.6 | 8.3 | | Neck Circumference (cm) | 30.0 | 3.1 | 28.7 | 2.2 | | Body Mass Index (BMI) | 18.3 | 4.0 | 17.3 | 2.5 | | Percent body fat (%) | 18.5 | 7.9 | 18.4 | 6.1 |
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