Table 1.
Anthropometric data of the studied children from the urban and rural areas.
| Urban Girls (GU) n = 89 Mean ± SD |
Rural Girls (GR) n = 89 Mean ± SD |
p | Urban Boys (BU) n = 80 Mean ± SD |
Rural Boys (BR) n = 71 Mean ± SD |
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| Height [cm] | 126.77 ± 7.35 | 128.62 ± 7.80 | p = 0.11 | 129.01 ± 6.73 | 130.35 ± 7.67 | p = 0.25 |
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| Weight [kg] | 25.69 ± 5.38 | 27.77 ± 5.77 | p = 0.01∗ | 27.27 ± 5.37 | 29.55 ± 7.78 | p = 0.04# |
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| BMI [kg/m2] | 15.85 ± 2.15 | 16.66 ± 2.36 | p = 0.02∗ | 16.24 ± 1.99 | 17.18 ± 3.10 | p = 0.03# |
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| BMI for age percentile | 45.39 ± 29.94 | 54.65 ± 30.17 | p = 0.04∗ | 46.99 ± 27.43 | 54.25 ± 28.27 | p = 0.11 |
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| Adipose tissue in percent (FatP) [%] |
21.10 ± 3.67 | 22.44 ± 4.03 | p = 0.02∗ | 18.89 ± 3.64 | 20.50 ± 5.10 | p = 0.02# |
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| Fat Mass (FatM) [kg] |
5.57 ± 2.14 | 6.41 ± 2.40 | p = 0.01∗ | 5.30 ± 1.97 | 6.41 ± 3.65 | p = 0.02# |
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| Fat – free mass FFM [kg] |
20.13 ± 3.46 | 21.36 ± 3.62 | p = 0.02∗ | 21.98 ± 3.62 | 23.15 ± 4.39 | p = 0.07 |
∗ Differences statistically significant between girls from urban and rural area. # Differences statistically significant between boys from urban and rural area.