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Table 4 Metabolic risk factors overall and according to weight category

From: Psychosocial, behavioral and clinical correlates of children with overweight and obesity

Characteristica

nb

% Exceed Cutoff

All

Weight Category

 

Overweight

Obese

Severely Obese

p-value**

Triglycerides, mg/dL

104

36.5%

79.5 (36.0, 362.0)

62.0 (36.0,362.0)

85.5 (46.0,241.0)

79.5 (43.0, 227.0)

0.26

Total Chol, mg/dL

104

43.3%

164.0 (118.0,237.0)

160.5 (122.0,237.0)

173.0 (124.00,228.0)

163.0 (118.0,231.0)

0.73

HDL-Chol, mg/dL

104

53.8%

45.0 (24.0, 76.0)

54.5 (26.0,76.0)

46.0 (24.0,69.0)

44.0 (24.0,76.0)

0.011

LDL- Chol, mg/dL

104

41.3%

96.0 (21.0,155.0)

88.0 (47.0,154.0)

100.0 (21.0,155.0)

96.5 (43.0,151.0)

0.40

SBP, mmHg

105

1.9%

110.0 (87.0, 140.0)

105.0 (90.0,125.0)

109.0 (95.0,140.0)

112.5 (87.0, 138.0)

0.051

DBP, mmHg

105

1.0%

67.0 (43.5, 85.0)

63.0 (57.0,81.0)

67.0 (43.5,85.0)

68.0 (47.5,81.0)

0.59

CRP, mg/L

104

28.8%

1.63 (0.10, 70.41)

0.97 (0.10, 3.85)

0.77 (0.18, 70.41)

3.40 (0.19, 38.16)

<  0.001

HOMA-IR

103

53.4%

3.08 (0.21, 23.61)

2.13 (0.21,5.65)

3.01 (0.52,8.05)

3.94 (0.69,23.61)

<  0.001

Insulin, uIU/mL

103

63.1%

16.0 (1.4, 102.8)

10.6 (1.4, 26.3)

11.6 (2.8, 35.2)

20.05 (3.8,102.8)

<  0.001

Glucose, mg/dL

104

2.9%

80.0 (62.0, 255.0)

80.5 (62.0,120.0)

82.0 (70.0,97.0)

79.0 (63.0,255.0)

0.54

# of risk factors

103

 

2 (0, 5)

1 (0,3)

1 (0,4)

2 (0,5)

0.003

  1. aMedian (Minimum, Maximum) values for each risk factor
  2. bnumber of participants with non-missing data
  3. **P-values calculated from Jonckheere-Terpstra Test for Independent Samples