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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Respir Physiol Neurobiol. 2020 Jun 5;279:103472. doi: 10.1016/j.resp.2020.103472

Table 1.

Participant characteristics

Children without obesity Children with obesity
Girls (n=13) Boys (n=14) All (n=27) Girls (n=17) Boys (n=29) All (n=46)
Age (y) 10.3 ± 0.9 10.4 ± 0.8 10.4 ± 0.9 9.7 ± 1.4 10.2 ± 1.0 10.1 ± 1.1
Height (cm) 146.9 ± 9.2 145.8 ± 7.5 146.4 ± 8.3 146.3 ± 11.4 148.0 ± 6.0 147.4 ± 8.1
Weight (kg) 38.7 ± 7.9 38.2 ± 5.5 38.4 ± 6.7 60.3 ± 19.2# 62.3 ± 14.3# 61.6 ± 16.0#
Body Mass Index (kg/m2) 17.8 ± 2.0 17.8 ± 1.2 17.8 ± 1.6 27.5 ± 4.7# 28.1 ± 4.8# 27.9 ± 4.7#
Body Mass Index percentile 52.9 ± 24.6 57.3 ± 20.0 55.1 ± 22.2 97.7 ± 1.2# 97.6 ± 1.4# 97.7 ± 1.4#

Data are mean ± SD.

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Significantly different compared with children without obesity, p < 0.05. No between-sex differences were observed.