Association of sexual maturation with excess body weight and height in children and adolescents

BMC Pediatrics

Table 1 Anthropometric characteristic and mode of commuting to school in children aged 8–14 years old from Florianópolis, South of Brazil, 2007

Study variables	Males (47.7%)	Females (52.3%)	p^§
	Median (p25 ; p75)*
Age (years)	11 (10; 13)	12 (10; 13)	0.529
BMI Z score	0.51 (−0.22; 1.42)	0.21 (−0.41; 0.96)	<0.001
Height Z score	0.25 (−0.41; 0.99)	0.11 (−0.52; 0.79)	0.002
Weight Z score	0.38 (−0.20; 1.30)	0.23 (−0.55; 0.69)	0.004
	%
Excess body weight	34.4	24.0	<0.001
Sexual maturation classification			0.937
Early	33.1	32.5
Late	32.2	32.7
Maternal excess body weight	31.0	33.4	0.313
Birth weight (grams)			<0.001
< 2,500	5.8	8.3
≥ 4,000	14.4	8.1
Active commuting to school	43.6	45.0	0.558
School type			0.975
Public	65.4	65.5
Private	34.6	34.5

*p25 e p75: 25th and 75th percentiles, respectively;
^§Mann–Whitney test (quantitative variables) and Rao-Scott test (qualitative variables).

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