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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 9.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Obes (Lond). 2013 Nov 26;38(4):563–568. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2013.220

Table 1.

Differences in anthropometrics and metabolic parameters in children by obesity status and P-values after adjusting for race (N = 37)

Non-obese (n = 27) Obese (n = 9) P-valuea



Mean ± s.e.m. Crude Race adjusted
z_BMI 0.97 ± 0.11 2.37 ± 0.087 0.0001 0.0001
Body fat (%) 7.86 ± 0.53 18.17 ± 1.88 0.0004 0.0009
HOMA-IR (mmol µl−2) 0.61 ± 0.1 1.36 ± 0.37 0.0832 0.2395
VAT (cm2) 13.122 ± 1.218 19.64601 ± 2.203 0.0222 0.0331
SAT (cm2) 94.377 ± 10.850 281.7344 ± 33.644 0.0004 0.0001
IHL (%) 0.005 ± 0.0009 0.014 ± 0.0024 0.0072 0.0060
IMCL (%) 0.004 ± 0.0004 0.006 ± 0.0004 0.0003 0.0001
EMCL (%) 0.009 ± 0.001 0.012 ± 0.002 0.0895 0.1072

Abbreviations: ANOVA, analysis of variance; BMI, body mass index; EMCL, extramyocellular lipids; HOMA-IR, homeostasis model assessment-estimated insulin resistance; IHL, intrahepatic lipid; IMCL, intramyocellular lipid; SAT, subcutaneous adipose tissue; VAT, visceral adipose tissue.

a

One-way/two-way ANOVA.