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. 2020 Mar 16;19:47. doi: 10.1186/s12944-020-01218-6

Table 1.

Difference in basic anthropometry results in children with and without laboratory results

with laboratory results without laboratory results
No. valid Mean ± SD No. valid Mean ± SD p-value
age (years) 1916 10.66 ± 3.01 1040 10.74 ± 3.17 0.663
BMI percentile 1916 93.97 ± 5.44 1040 92.54 ± 7.88 0.000
gestational age (weeks) 1858 40.02 ± 4.39 998 39.86 ± 3.89 0.439
weight at birth (grams) 1862 3492.89 ± 666.70 990 3490.89 ± 650.93 0.610
father’s BMI 1802 28.00 ± 8.02 926 27.55 ± 8.30 0.090
mother’s BMI 1865 27.26 ± 5.15 985 28.86 ± 4.11 0.261
waist z-score 1915 1.67 ± 0.60 1039 1.60 ± 0.67 0.003
SBP z-score 1916 0.61 ± 1.16 1040 0.70 ± 1.20 0.058
DBP z-score 1916 1.05 ± 1.18 1040 1.10 ± 1.26 0.418
% of girls 49.94 44.60 0.004*

U Man-Whitney test, p-value was bolded as statistically significant if p < 0.05.; * Chi^2 Pearson’s test