Table 1.
Body Mass Index and Weight Status of Urban School Students by Grade Level.
Fig 1.
Body Mass Index and BMI-for-age Percentiles of Urban Female and Male Students.
Body mass index (BMI) for female students (A) and male students (B) depicted on BMI-for-age percentile growth charts [14]. Each symbol represents one student’s BMI (N = 4673). Severe obesity was defined as class 2 obesity (≥ 120% of the 95th percentile of BMI-for-age) or class 3 obesity (≥ 140% of the 95th percentile) [2].
Table 2.
Aerobic Fitness and FITNESSGRAM Classification of Urban School Students by Grade Level, Age ≥ 9.0 years.
Fig 2.
Aerobic Fitness Results from The President’s Challenge 1-mile Endurance Run.
Performance level national standards were used to classify fitness of urban school students. Percentage of the population at each grade level (elementary, middle, and high school) is shown. The 85th and 50th percentiles are benchmarks for Presidential awards.
Table 3.
Resting Blood Pressure Indices and Pulse Rate of Urban School Students by Grade Level.