(a)

N = 92	“Nonoverweight”	“Overweight”	P values
	n = 37	n = 55
Anthropometry
Age (y)	8.77 ± 0.92	9.28 ± 1.2	P = 0.04
Height-SDS	0.47 ± 0.95	0.99 ± 1.16	P = 0.26
Weight-SDS	0.13 ± 0.56	2.06 ± 0.61	P ≤ 0.001
BMI-SDS	−0.13 ± 0.57	2.08 ± 0.56	P ≤ 0.001
BMI	16.2 ± 1.2	24.6 ± 2.91	P ≤ 0.001
Sex (boys/girls)	♂37.84%, ♀62.16%	♂36.36 %, ♀63.64 %

Age in years, height-SDS, weight-SDS, Body-Mass-Index-Standard Deviation Score and BMI expressed as mean ± standard deviation. Sex (boys and girls) was expressed in percentage.