Table 2.

Effects of a three-week body weight reduction program on BMI (body mass index), OLSB (one-leg standing balance), SCT (stair climbing test) and FSS (fatigue severity score) in the recruited pediatric population, including obese subjects with or without metabolic syndrome, subdivided into females and males groups.

Parameter	Obese without Metabolic Syndrome			Obese with Metabolic Syndrome
	All	Females	Males	All	Females	Males
BMI (kg/m2)
Pre	36.3 ± 6.7 b	35.9 ± 5.8	36.7 ± 7.7	38.3 ± 6.9	38.3 ± 6.7	38.4 ± 7.2
Post	34.8 ± 6.4 a,b	34.5 ± 5.6 a	35.1 ± 7.3 a	36.7 ± 6.6 a	36.8 ± 6.5 a	36.6 ± 6.9 a
FM (kg)
Pre	43.7 ± 8.2	43.4 ± 7.2	44.3 ± 9.9	41.4 ± 12.0	43.2 ± 4.5	40.1 ± 16.3
Post	40.8 ± 7.2 a	41.7 ± 6.8 a	39.4 ± 8.0 a	39.0 ± 10.7 a	41.2 ± 4.3	37.3 ± 14.4
FM (%)
Pre	43.8 ± 5.5	45.1 ± 5.1 c	42.1 ± 5.5 e	43.9 ± 6.1	46.1 ± 5.1 d	41.2 ± 6.1
Post	42.7 ± 5.8 a	44.3 ± 5.3 a,c,d	40.7 ± 5.9 a,e	43.0 ± 5.0 a	45.2 ± 5.1 a,d	40.3 ± 5.5 a
FFM (kg)
Pre	54.3 ± 9.5
Post	53.6 ± 9.9	48.0 ± 6.4 c	63.3 ± 6.8	54.1 ± 7.2	49.2 ± 3.5 d	58.1 ± 7.1
OLSBL (s)
Pre	45.6 ± 19.2	47.4 ± 18.2	43.4 ± 20.2	42.8 ± 21.1	43.0 ± 21.0	42.6 ± 21.4
Post	51.4 ± 15.1 a	52.8 ± 14.0 a	49.5 ± 16.4 a	49.1 ± 18.0 a	49.1 ± 18.7 a	49.2 ± 17.2 a
OLSBR (s)
Pre	45.2 ± 19.3	47.5 ± 18.4	42.3 ± 20.1	43.7 ± 21.0	46.3 ± 20.3	40.6 ± 21.7
Post	51.8 ± 15.2 a	53.7 ± 13.4 a	49.3 ± 17.0 a	48.4 ± 17.8 a	50.3 ± 17.3 a	46.1 ± 18.2 a
SCT (s)
Pre	3.1 ± 0.6	3.1 ± 0.5 c,d	3.0 ± 0.7 e	3.1 ± 0.5	3.3 ± 0.6 d	2.9 ± 0.4
Post	2.8 ± 0.5 a	2.9 ± 0.4 a	2.8 ± 0.5 a,e	2.9 ± 0.5 a	3.0 ± 0.6 a,d	2.7 ± 0.4 a
FSS
Pre	26.0 ± 6.4	23.8 ± 5.0	29.7 ± 7.1 a	27.3 ± 10.2	28.5 ± 9.5	26.4 ± 11.8
Post	22.7 ± 6.4 a	20.5 ± 4.4 a	26.2±7.7 a	20.6 ± 9.2 a	20.3 ± 9.2 a	20.8 ± 10.3 a

^a: p < 0.01 vs. the corresponding post value; ^b: p < 0.01 vs. all obese subjects with metabolic syndrome; ^c: p < 0.01 vs. obese males without metabolic syndrome; ^d: p < 0.01 vs. obese males with metabolic syndrome; ^e: p < 0.01 vs. obese females with metabolic syndrome.