Table 1 Sex, age, BMI, %MBMI and smoking status by ethnicity in the Add Health analytic sample
Characteristic | All (N = 8113) | European Americans (N = 5075) | African Americans (N = 1744) | Hispanic Americans (N = 1294) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|  | Mean [95 % CI] /N (%) | Smokers (N = 2065) | Nonsmokers (N = 3010) | Smokers (N = 324) | Nonsmokers (N = 1420) | Smokers (N = 367) | Nonsmokers (N = 927) |
Female | 4286 (52.8) | 1102 (53.4) | 1569 (52.1) | 149 (46.0) | 811 (57.1) | 183 (49.9) | 472 (50.9) |
Age in years | 16.36 [16.32,16.40] | 16.60 [16.53, 16.68] | 16.08 [16.02, 16.15] | 16.75 [16.54, 16.95] | 16.34 [16.24, 16.43] | 16.66 [16.48, 16.84] | 16.53 [16.41, 16.64] |
BMI | 23.45 [23.34, 23.57] | 23.18 [22.96, 23.40] | 22.94 [22.78, 23.12] | 24.97 [24.31, 25.63] | 24.13 [23.83, 24.43] | 23.65 [24.12, 25.27] | 24.70 [23.32, 23.99] |
%MBMI | 112.42 [111.88, 112.96] | 110.40 [109.36, 111.45] | 110.76 [109.93, 111.59] | 118.52 [115.36, 121.67] | 115.93 [114.49, 117.36] | 112.83 [114.64, 120.06] | 117.35 [111.25, 114.41] |
Self-reported BMI | 79 (0.01) | 24 (0.01) | 30 (0.01) | 6 (0.02) | 12 (0.01) | 2 (0.005) | 5 (0.005) |
% Obese | 11Â % | 11Â % | 9Â % | 18Â % | 14Â % | 17Â % | 11Â % |
% Overweight | 17Â % | 17Â % | 16Â % | 19Â % | 20Â % | 22Â % | 19Â % |
Region of US | |||||||
  West | 1546 (19.1) | 247 (12.0) | 533 (17.7) | 38 (11.7) | 208 (14.6) | 146 (39.8) | 347 (40.3) |
  Midwest | 2286 (28.2) | 824 (39.9) | 1034 (34.4) | 65 (20.1) | 268 (18.9) | 39 (10.6) | 56 (6.0) |
  South | 3234 (39.8) | 686 (33.2) | 987 (32.8) | 200 (61.7) | 866 (61.0) | 108 (29.4) | 387 (41.8) |
  Northeast | 1047 (12.9) | 308 (14.9) | 456 (15.1) | 21 (6.5) | 78 (5.50) | 74 (20.2) | 110 (11.9) |
African Americans | |||||||
  Highly Educated |  |  |  | 49 (15.1) | 291 (20.5) |  |  |
Hispanic Americans | |||||||
Ancestry | |||||||
  Puerto Rican |  |  |  |  |  | 89 (24.3) | 134 (14.5) |
  Cuban |  |  |  |  |  | 37 (10.0) | 156 (16.8) |
  Mexican |  |  |  |  |  | 181 (49.3) | 475 (51.3) |
  Central/South American |  |  |  |  |  | 27 (7.4) | 92 (9.9) |
  Other Hispanic |  |  |  |  |  | 33 (9.0) | 70 (7.5) |
Immigrant status | |||||||
  US Born |  |  |  |  |  | 325 (88.6) | 702 (75.7) |
  Non-US born |  |  |  |  |  | 42 (11.4) | 225 (24.3) |