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Published in final edited form as: J Pediatr. 2013 Aug 12;163(5):10.1016/j.jpeds.2013.06.082. doi: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2013.06.082

Table 3.

Plasma renin activity (PRA), plasma aldosterone concentration (PAC), and aldosterone-renin ratio (ARR) in overweight and normal weight children; Subjects were considered overweight or obese if their age and sex adjusted BMI percentile values were 850025; or greater.

Dependent Variable(log)	Black			White

	Overweight & Obese	Normal weight	p-value	Overweight & Obese	Normal weight	p-value
PRA (ng/ml/h)	0.61(0.88)	0.84(0.74)	0.01816	1.08(0.67)	0.95(0.68)	0.078
PAC (pg/ml)	1.94(0.84)	1.88(0.79)	0.5148	2.6(0.66)	2.41(0.65)	0.0168
ARR	1.33(0.92)	1.04(0.86)	0.0060	1.51(0.72)	1.47(0.68)	0.5938