Table 1.

Subject characteristics for both patients with PKU and healthy control subjects (n = 40)

Subject characteristics		PKU patients (n = 20)a	Healthy controls (n = 20)a
Ageb (years)	Range	6–16	7–16
	Median	10.0	10.0
Height (cm)	Range	114.0–175.1	123.0–179.0
	Mean ± SD	144.2 ± 18.7	150.7 ± 14.1
Weight (kg)	Range	18.5–76.2	23.0–74.0
	Mean ± SD	41.2 ± 16.7	40.7 ± 11.9
BMI (kg/m2)	Range	14.0–25.3	14.2–23.1
	Mean ± SD	18.8 ± 3.5	17.5 ± 2.0

^aIn both groups (n = 20), gender was equally distributed (7 boys and 13 girls)

^bAge did not show a normal distribution; therefore only range and median are given