Gender-related differences in cardiometabolic risk factors and lifestyle behaviors in treatment-seeking adolescents with severe obesity

Table 4 Cardiometabolic risk markers at different levels of breakfast eating, physical activity and screen time

	Physical activity level			Breakfast eating			Screen time
Cardiometabolic risk marker	Low	Moderate	High	Skipping regularly	Sometimes	Regular	Low	Moderate	High
	n = 88	n = 154	n = 20	n = 57	n = 58	n = 143	n = 26	n = 95	n = 145
HDL cholesterol (mmol/L)	1.19 (0.27)	1.19 (0.26)	1.25 (0.33)	1.17 (0.24)	1.17 (0.26)	1.19 (0.28)	1.20 (0.27)	1.22 (0.27)	1.17 (0.28)
LDL cholesterol (mmol/L)	2.6 (0.6)	2.6 (0.7)	2.6 (0.7)	2.5 (0.6)	2.6 (0.7)	2.6 (0.7)	2.7 (0.7)	2.5 (0.7)	2.6 (0.7)
Triglycerides (mmol/L)	1.5 (0.8)	1.5 (0.8)	1.6 (0.9)	1.5 (0.6)	1.5 (0.7)	1.6 (0.9)	1.4 (0.6)	1.5 (0.7)	1.6 (0.8)
Fasting glucose (mmol/L)	4.9 (0.3)^a	4.9 (0.3)	5.4 (2.0)¹	4.9 (0.4)	4.9 (0.4)	5.0 (0.9)	4.9 (0.4)	4.9 (0.4)	4.9 (0.9)
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)	118 (11)	115 (16)	119 (15)	116 (12)	112 (21)^a	118 (12)^a	111 (22)	115 (11)	118 (15)

ANOVA with post-hoc test for HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and systolic blood pressure. Kruskall-Wallis test for triglycerides and fasting glucose. ^aValues within the same lifestyle category differ significantly from each other

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