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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Causes Control. 2011 Apr 5;22(6):899–908. doi: 10.1007/s10552-011-9763-2

Table 3.

Anthropometric data by gender for each individual study and aggregate data.

Citation	Average BW (g)		Ht SDS
Citation	Males (SD)	Females (SD)	Males (SE)	Females (SE)
Scranton et al. 1975	—	—	0.229 (0.22)	0.575 (0.26)^*
Pui et al. 1987	—	—	0.280 (0.11)^*	0.235 (0.12)
Unpublished case data^†	3295.5 (607.1)	3341.3 (549.3)	0.568 (0.11)^**	0.331 (0.11)^*
Ruza et al. 2003	—	—	0.409 (0.19)^*	0.639 (0.23)^*
Unpublished case data^‡	—	—	1.17 (0.29)^**	0.832 (0.16)^**
Cotterill et al. 2004	—	—	0.128 (0.08)	0.314 (0.11)^*
Troisi et al. 2006	3462.4 (496.8)	3302.5 (549.3)	0.523 (0.15)^**	0.332 (0.13)^*
Schuz & Forman, 2007	3442.6 (724.9)	3383.2 (414.5)	—	—
Aggregate data	3368.2 (586.8)	3334.3 (532.6)	0.362 (0.05)^**	0.369 (0.05)^**

Ht = height at diagnosis; BW = birth-weight; SD = standard deviation; SE = standard error; SDS = standard deviation score;

^†

from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, TN, USA;

^‡

from University Clinic of Navarra, Spain;—, no data;

^*

One-sample student t-test P <0.05;

^**

One-sample student t-test P <0.001