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Table 1 Descriptive information

From: Associations between body composition and fundamental motor skill competency in children

 

Total

Boys

Girls

 

n = 244

n = 130

n = 114

Age

6.05 (2.01)

6.09 (2.04)

6.00 (1.98)

Race (%)

 Caucasian

9.0%

10.0%

7.9%

 African American

71.7%

66.2%

78.1%

 Hispanic

16.8%

20.0%

13.2%

 Asian

1.6%

2.3%

0.9%

 Mixed Race

0.8%

1.5%

0.0%

Tanita Measures

 Fat mass (kg)

5.78 (4.90)

5.86 (5.17)

5.69 (4.59)

 Fat free mass (kg)

19.69 (6.03)

20.14 (6.55)

19.17 (5.35)*

 Fat percentage

20.53 (7.26)

20.40 (7.24)

20.68 (7.30)

 BMI

16.90 (3.88)

17.04 (3.67)

16.75 (4.12)

Body Fat Percentile1

53.06 (37.40)

57.75 (37.80)

43.05 (38.09)

 Underfat

17.3%

14.8%

17.1%

 Normal weight

45.8%

39.8%

55.3%

 Overfat

12.5%

17.0%

6.6%

 Obese

24.4%

28.4%

21.1%

CDC-dervied measures

 BMI

17.34 (3.93)

17.60 (3.79)

17.46 (4.16)

 BMI Percentile

58.14 (33.34)

61.04 (32.91)

59.00 (32.38)

 Underweight

6.3%

5.5%

7.1%

 Normal weight

61.3%

61.4%

61.1%

 Overweight

11.7%

10.2%

13.3%

 Obese

20.8%

22.8%

18.6%

TGMD-2 total

 Raw scores

47.67 (14.12)

51.61 (14.81)

44.61 (12.86)

 Percentile scores

12.15 (16.43)

13.23 (17.58)

10.92 (15.00)*

Locomotor skills

 Raw Scores

21.6 (7.17)

22.69 (7.46)

21.17 (6.89)

 Percentile scores

9.71 (13.62)

10.88 (14.63)

8.37 (12.31)*

Object control skills

Raw scores

26.01 (8.50)

28.92 (8.80)

23.44 (7.40)*

Percentile Scores

11.88 (12.21)

12.28 (12.27)

11.41 (12.17)

  1. Note: M (SD); 1Calculated from McCarthy et al. [37] for children over the age of 5 years (total n = 168, boys n = 88, girl n = 76); *p <.05 sex differences