Table 2.

Clinical and hormonal characteristics of infants with PWS at the time of ghrelin measurement during the first year of life according to their EOS status at the age of 4 years

	PWS infants who later developed EOS n = 8	PWS infants who did not later develop EOS n = 29	p value
Sex—girls, n (%)	3 (37.5)	10 (34.5)	1.000
Age—month, median (IQR)	6.1 (3.6–10.3)	7.6 (4.8–9.1)	0.912
BMI—WHO z-score, median (IQR)a	− 1.8 (− 2.5– − 1.1)	− 1.1 (− 1.9–0.0)	0.110
Genetic subtype—deletion, n (%)a	4 (50.0)	12 (42.9)	1.000
IGF-1—z-score, median (IQR)b	− 2.1 (− 2.5– − 1.3)	− 1.1 (− 1.7– − 0.4)	0.008

^aOne non-scoliotic patient without data on height and unspecified genetic subtype

^bTwo patients, one in each group, without data on IGF-1