. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 20.

Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2021 Nov;29(11):1780–1786. doi: 10.1002/oby.23283

TABLE 2.

Infant anthropometrics

	Maternal health status in early pregnancy
	MHO	MUO	p value
Infant sex			0.45^#
Male	5	3
Female	2	4

Gestational age at delivery (wk, d)	39, 3 ± 0, 2	39, 5 ± 0, 2	0.62^†

Infant age at assessment (d)	6.7 ± 0.4	9.7 ± 2.3	0.24^†

Infant weight (g)	3,095.6 ± 77.9	3,716.4 ± 220.7	0.01^†

Infant fat-free mass (kg)	2.87 ± 0.08	3.17 ± 0.16	0.12^†

Infant fat mass (kg)	0.28 ± 0.05	0.55 ± 0.07	0.01^†

Infant fat mass (%)	8.9 ± 1.7	14.6 ± 1.3	0.02^†

Data are presented as mean ± SEM.

Abbreviations: MHO, metabolically healthy obesity; MUO, metabolically unhealthy obesity.

^†

Independent samples t test.

χ² analysis.