Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of the study population divided by puberty status and gender

	Pre-puberty (n = 42)			Puberty (n = 47)
	Male	Female	P value	Male	Female	P value
N	28	14		21	26
Age (years)	8.53 ± 1.82	8.02 ± 1.22	0.346	11.38 ± 1.31	10.67 ± 0.89	0.033
Height (cm)	134.31 ± 11.63	130.19 ± 7.92	0.241	152.87 ± 7.46	145.80 ± 7.14	0.002
Weight (kg)	41.54 ± 17.75	36.09 ± 9.23	0.198	64.47 ± 9.04	45.72 ± 10.49	< 0.001
BMI (kg/cm2)	22.04 ± 6.31	21.03 ± 3.78	0.524	27.46 ± 2.03	21.33 ± 3.86	< 0.001
BMI-Z	1.71 ± 1.91	2.34 ± 1.49	0.249	2.57 ± 0.39	1.56 ± 1.32	0.001
Estradiol (pg/ml)	< 5	< 5	1.000	11.07 ± 8.49	33.68 ± 35.80	0.099
Testosterone (ng/dl)	5.10 ± 4.16	9.40 ± 9.76	0.445	83.20 ± 98.55	13.99 ± 20.87	0.018