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Table 1 Demographic and descriptive statistics

From: Associations between cumulative risk, childhood sleep duration, and body mass index across childhood

 

M (SD) or Percentage (%)

 

Wave 3

(age 3)

Wave 4

(age 5)

Wave 5

(age 9)

Demographics

n = 3451

n = 3419

n = 3229

Child age (years)

2.97 (0.21)

5.14 (0.23)

9.38 (0.37)

Child sex (female)

48.3%

48.0%

48.0%

Maternal age (years)

27.97 (5.97)

30.09 (5.96)

34.30 (5.95)

Maternal race/ethnicity

 White

20.8%

20.2%

20.9%

 Black

50.1%

50.7%

50.2%

 Latina

25.9%

25.9%

25.7%

 Other

3.2%

3.1%

3.2%

Study Constructs

Child BMI Percentile

63.73 (30.61)

66.36 (28.56)

68.14 (27.93)

Categorical BMI

 Underweight

4.4%

3.1%

2.2%

 Average

60.8%

62.1%

56.3%

 Overweight

16.9%

17.5%

16.8%

 Obese

17.9%

17.3%

24.8%

Child Sleep Duration (hours)

–

9.40 (1.28)

8.95 (1.12)

Cumulative Risk

0.23 (0.19)

0.21 (0.18)

0.20 (0.17)