TABLE 1

Recalculation of Data from Table 2 of Scheer et al.

	Average maximum SUV		Article (“average”) % increase	%^* of averaged SUVs		%^* of averaged SUVs after exclusion
Group	Before	After	Article (“average”) % increase	%^* of averaged SUVs	Excluded	%^* of averaged SUVs after exclusion
A	7.1	12.1	71	70	No	70
	8.8	12.8	75	45	No	45
	16.7	12.3	−26	−26	Yes
	3.8	4.4	22	16	No	16
	5.3	12.8	142	142	No	142
	8.7	7	−17	−20	No	−20
	6.2	7.6	23	23	No	23
	6.3	5.3	−16	−16	No	−16
	9.9	9.9	1	0	Yes
	7.2	6.2	0	−14	No	−14
Average			28	22		31
B	5.9	6.4	9	8	No	8
	5.6	4.4	−23	−21	No	−21
	5.4	6	11	11	No	11
	11.5	15.8	43	37	Yes
	7.6	8.3	13	9	No	9
	7.8	2.3	−57	−71	No	−71
	5.2	13.7	179	163	Yes
	2.2	1.6	−27	−27	No	−27
	1.7	1.6	−6	−6	No	−6
	5.4	4.5	−17	−17	No	−17
	5.6	5.1	−4	−9	No	−9
Average			11	7		−14

↵* Actual calculated average change based on the before and after numbers in the article.