Table 2.
Anthropometric and physiological parameters of control and intervention pupils by gender after 3 months.
| Parameter | Control Mean (SD) | Intervention Mean (SD) | Differencea |
95% Confidence Limits |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Min | Max | |||||
| Boys | ||||||
| BMI† | 23.3 (3.5) | 19.7 (3.1) | +3.6 | +2.12 | +5.07 | <0.05 |
| % Body Fat | 23.9 (10.1) | 19.6 (8.2) | +4.3 | +0.23 | +8.37 | <0.05 |
| Cholesterol§ | 191.4 (19) | 177.2 (19.3) | +14.2 | +5.60 | +22.80 | <0.05 |
| SBP‡ | 121.1 (8.3) | 109.7 (7.6) | +11.4 | +7.85 | +14.95 | <0.05 |
| DBP# | 76.5 (7.2) | 72.1 (6.8) | +4.4 | +1.27 | +7.53 | <0.05 |
| Heart RateΨ | 83.5 (8.3) | 77.3 (9.5) | +6.2 | +2.16 | +10.24 | <0.05 |
| Girls | ||||||
| BMI† | 24.7 (3.7) | 20.3 (3.6) | +4.4 | +2.77 | +6.04 | <0.05 |
| % Body Fat | 26.1 (7.9) | 22.2 (9.8) | +3.9 | –0.15 | +7.95 | NS |
| Cholesterol§ | 188.3 (16.5) | 174.1 (20.2) | +14.2 | +5.82 | +22.58 | <0.05 |
| SBP‡ | 118.6 (7.5) | 106.3 (8.3) | +12.3 | +8.73 | +15.87 | <0.05 |
| DBP# | 73.9 (6.1) | 70.6 (5.9) | +3.3 | +0.61 | +5.99 | <0.05 |
| Heart RateΨ | 82.2 (9.8) | 78.2 (7.6) | +4 | +0.13 | +7.87 | <0.05 |
†
BMI = body mass index (kg/m2),
§
in mg/dl;
‡
SBP = systolic blood pressure (mmHg);
#
DBP = diastolic blood pressure (mmHg);
Ψ
beats per minute (BPM), NS = not significant;
a
= control mean minus intervention mean.