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

BMC Pediatrics

Table 4 Estimated beta coefficients from uni- and multivariate Poisson regression models for the prediction of height Z score according to the sexual maturation of school children aged 8–14 years from Florianópolis, South of Brazil, 2007

Sexual maturation classification	Males			Females
Sexual maturation classification	Crude beta (95% CI)*	Adjusted beta (95% CI)*^§	p^§	Crude beta (95% CI)*	Adjusted beta (95% CI)*^§	p^§
Early	0.33 (0.12; 0.54)	0.46 (0.26; 0.66)	<0.001	0.33 (0.16; 0.50)	0.37 (0.14; 0.59)	0.005
Normal	1	1	-	1	1	-
Late	−0.23 (−0.50; 0.04)	−0.32 (−0.63; −0.02)	0.039	−0.27 (−0.39; −0.16)	−0.38 (−0.56; −0.20)	0.001
Variance homogeneity^†	0.303			0.367

*95% confidence interval;
^§Linear regression model, adjusted for maternal BMI, active commuting, age, birth weight, school type and interaction between maternal BMI and school type.
^†p value from Breusch-Pagan and Cook-Weisberg test.

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