Table 2.
Anthropometric and spirometric results from examination sessions one and two for the preterm-born group (in adolescence).
| Examination one n
= 70 |
Examination two n
= 70 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | SD | Med | Min | Max | Mean | SD | Med | Min | Max | p | |
| Age | 12.5 | 1.52 | 13.0 | 10.0 | 14.0 | 13.5 | 1.52 | 14.0 | 11.0 | 15.0 | 0.001 |
| Height | 145.3 | 9.95 | 148.0 | 127.0 | 166.0 | 149.3 | 9.47 | 148.0 | 134.0 | 168.0 | 0.001 |
| Weight | 38.2 | 11.98 | 33.8 | 26.0 | 84.0 | 42.2 | 11.8 | 38.5 | 29.0 | 84.0 | 0.001 |
| Chest mobility | 4.83 | 1.79 | 5.00 | 2.00 | 8.5 | 4.89 | 1.47 | 5.00 | 2.00 | 8.50 | 0.66 |
| Chest circumference exhaled | 71.1 | 7.46 | 70.0 | 59.0 | 91.0 | 74.1 | 6.91 | 72.0 | 61.0 | 94.0 | 0.001 |
| Chest circumference inhaled | 66.3 | 8.30 | 64.5 | 54.0 | 89.0 | 69.2 | 7.12 | 67.8 | 58.0 | 91.5 | 0.001 |
| FEV1% | 93.8 | 21.1 | 96.9 | 38.0 | 131.9 | 100.7 | 23.6 | 98.0 | 40.0 | 142.1 | 0.001 |
| FVC% | 95.4 | 18.24 | 96.5 | 62.0 | 130.8 | 102.0 | 18.38 | 106.6 | 70.0 | 143.4 | 0.001 |
| MVV% | 138.5 | 29.7 | 137.0 | 72.0 | 216.1 | 155.5 | 32.3 | 153.0 | 78.0 | 218.0 | 0.001 |
FEV1%, percentage of predicted value for forced expiratory volume at 1 s; FVC%, percentage of forced vital capacity; MVV%, percentage of maximal voluntary ventilation; SD, standard deviation; Med, median; Min, minimum, Max, maximum.