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Table 1 Characteristics of the analytic and excluded age-eligible sample born between October 1, 1979 and June 30, 1994

From: Childhood body mass index trajectories: modeling, characterizing, pairwise correlations and socio-demographic predictors of trajectory characteristics

Characteristic

Analytic sample

Excluded sample

Child-level

  

   Total # of children

3289

139057

   Sex, n (%)

  

Boys

1680 (51.1)

70216 (50.5)

Girls

1609 (48.9)

68841 (49.5)

   Race/ethnicity, n (%)

  

White

2362 (71.8)

59644 (42.9)

Black

214 (6.5)

14341 (10.3)

Other

168 (5.1)

7847 (5.6)

Unknown

503 (15.3)

52443 (37.7)

   Year of birth, n (%)

  

1979 ~ 1984

382 (11.6)

38343 (27.6)

1985 ~ 1989

1315 (40.0)

48075 (34.6)

1990 ~ 1994

1592 (48.4)

52639 (37.9)

   Birth weight in grams, mean (SD)

3442 (488)

3433 (507)

   Type of health insurance, %

  

Medicaid

129 (3.9)

7,256 (5.2)

Non-Medicaid

3160 (96.1)

131801 (94.8)

Visit-level

  

   Total # of visits

81550

993687

   Age at visit (years), n (%)

  

0 ~ 1

25188 (30.9)

294540 (29.6)

2 ~ 5

17501 (21.5)

215744 (21.7)

6 ~ 10

16681 (20.5)

175422 (17.7)

11 ~ 14

12974 (15.9)

164369 (16.5)

15 ~ 18

9206 (11.3)

143612 (14.5)

  1. SD, standard deviation