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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 18.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2014 Jan 30;61(7):1263–1269. doi: 10.1002/pbc.24960

TABLE II.

Changes in Percentage of Overweight or Obese and BMI z-Score of Pediatric ALL Patients During and After Treatment

Diagnosis (N = 83) End of induction (N = 78) End of consolidation (N = 79) 6 months into maintenance (N = 78) 12 months into maintenance (N = 74) 18 months into maintenance (N = 50) End of treatment (N = 76) 1 year post-treatment (N = 61) 3 years post-treatment (N = 51) 5 years post-treatment (N = 42)
Percentage of overweight or obese, N (%)
All 17 (20.5) 32 (41.0) 20 (25.3) 31 (39.7) 31 (41.9) 18 (36.0) 29 (38.2) 25 (41.0) 22 (43.1) 17 (40.5)
 Females 5 (11.6) 12 (29.3) 7 (17.5) 14 (35.9) 17 (44.7) 8 (29.6) 13 (33.3) 14 (40.0) 13 (43.3) 9 (36.0)
 Males 12 (30.0) 20 (54.1) 13 (33.3) 17 (43.6) 14 (38.9) 10 (43.5) 16 (43.2) 11 (42.3) 9 (42.9) 8 (47.1)
BMI z-score, mean (SD)
All 0.2 (1.2) 0.7 (1.2) 0.5 (1.0) 0.7 (0.9) 0.8 (0.9) 0.6 (1.0) 0.8 (0.8) 0.7 (1.0) 0.8 (1.0) 0.7 (0.9)
 Females −0.1 (1.1) 0.4 (1.2) 0.2 (1.1) 0.6 (0.9) 0.7 (0.9) 0.5 (0.9) 0.6 (0.8) 0.5 (1.0) 0.6 (0.9) 0.7 (0.9)
 Males 0.4 (1.2) 1.1 (1.1) 0.8 (0.9) 0.9 (1.0) 0.9 (0.9) 0.6 (1.1) 0.9 (0.9) 0.9 (0.9) 1.2 (1.1) 0.8 (1.0)