Table 1.

Demographic and laboratory data for the study group

	Obese	Normal weight	p value
Number (male/female)	120 (57/63)	51 (25/26)	0.856
Age (years)	13.0 ± 2.9	12.6 ± 3.1	0.476
Height (m)	1.63 ± 0.14	1.56 ± 0.15	0.068
Height-SDS	0.61 ± 1.03	0.07 ± 0.90	0.001
Weight (kg)	89.90 ± 23.46	49.79 ± 14.66	0.000
BMI (m2/kg)	33.52 ± 6.43	19.78 ± 2.88	0.000
BMI-SDS	5.61 ± 2.44	0.31 ± 0.90	0.000
Day SBP (mmHg)	121.73 ± 11.63	110.35 ± 8.23	0.000
Day DBP (mmHg)	71.59 ± 8.62	68.02 ± 7.57	0.035
Day SBP-SDS	0.38 ± 1.41	−0.87 ± 1.00	0.000
Day DBP-SDS	−0.15 ± 1.48	− 0.67 ± 1.18	0.064
25(OH) D (ng/mL)	27.75 ± 8.58	34.24 ± 9.31	0.000
Serotonin (ng/mL)	162.75 ± 79.63	241.53 ± 109.06	0.033
Glu (mmol/L)	4.04 ± 0.86	4.88 ± 0.71	0.003
Insulin (mU/L)	28.64 ± 16.90	21.18 ± 8.74	0.291
HOMA	5.55 ± 3.93	4.55 ± 2.27	0.499