Table 1.

Characteristics of the study group

Characteristics	Obese N = 50 Mean ± SD	Non Obese N = 35 Mean±SD	t	p- value
Age (years)	10.1 ± 2.5	9.3 ± 2.1	1.34	0.185
Weight z-score	2.54 ± 1.07	0.96 ± 0.6	7.02	0.000**
Height z-score	-0.91 ± 0.79	-0.70 ± 0.9	0.79	0.4
Z score-BMI	2.77 ± 0.6	1.7 ± 0.46	7.72	0.00**
Waist circumference	100.7 ± 18.6	69.9 ± 9.8	7.23	0.000**
Hip circumference	109.6 ± 17.8	79.4 ± 14.8	7.84	0.000**
Waist/hip ratio (WHR)	0.96 ± 0.34	0.79 ± 0.41	2.74	0.04*
Mid arm circumference (MAC)	33.4 ± 7.5	18.4 ± 5.4	9.75	0.000**

SD: standard deviation, BMI: body mass index.

^*if p≤0.05, then the relation is statistically significant.

^**if p≤0.001, then the relation is statistically highly significant.