Influences of persistent overweight on perceptual-motor proficiency of primary school children: the North-West CHILD longitudinal study

Table 1 Distribution of participants (N = 381) by BMI group

Variables	N	%	Never overweight		Normal → overweight		Persistent overweight		Overweight → normal
Variables	N	%	N	%	n	%	n	%	n	%
Total group	381	100	286	75.07	34	8.92	38	9.97	23	6.04
Boys	181	47.51	135	35.44	18	4.72	17	4.46	11	2.89
Girls	200	52.49	151	39.63	16	4.20	21	5.51	12	3.15
White	104	27.30	63	16.54	14	3.67	19	4.99	8	2.10
Black	277	72.70	223	58.52	20	5.25	19	4.99	15	3.94
Low SES	218	57.22	188	49.34	15	3.94	9	2.37	6	1.57
High SES	163	42.78	98	25.72	19	4.99	29	7.61	17	4.46

N number of participants; SES Socioeconomic status; % percentage
*The method of determining overweight and SES is stipulated in the Methods section

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