. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 10.

Published in final edited form as: J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab. 2008 May;21(5):439–448. doi: 10.1515/jpem.2008.21.5.439

TABLE I.

Descriptive statistics of demographic and anthropometric characteristics of girls with premature adrenarche (PA) and on-time adrenarche

	PA(n = 40)	On-time (n = 36)
Age (years)	7.7 ± 0.9	7.4 ± 0.8
SES	43.7± 13.1	47.1 ± 11.1
Race
Caucasian	23 (57.5%)	26 (72.2%)
African-American	12 (30.0%)	7 (19.4%)
Other	3 (7.5%)	2 (5.6%)
Biracial	2 (5.0%)	1 (2.8%)
Weight (kg)	31.6±9.0^**	26.5 ± 6.0
Height (cm)	128.5 ± 6.8^**	123.7 ± 7.0
BMI	19.0±4.l	17.1±2.7
BMI category
≥85^th percentile - at risk for overweight	19 (47.5%)	10 (27.8%)
≥95^th percentile - overweight	14 (35.0%)^*	5 (13.9%,)
Lean body mass (kg)	24.5 (5.0)^**	21.4 (3 .9)

Results are given as means ± SD, or number (percentage).

SES = socio-economic status based on Hollingshead scale¹⁸ ; 8MI = body mass index [weight (kg)/height (m)²)].

p ≤0.05

^**

P ≤0.01.