Changes of ghrelin following oral glucose tolerance test in obese children with insulin resistance

Table 1 The clinical features of obese I children

	BT-I (n = 6)	BT-II (n = 5)	GT-I (n = 6)	GT-II (n = 5)
Age (yr)	9.30 ± 0.98	11.95 ± 0.99	8.72 ± 1.53	11.24 ± 1.08
Mean birth weight (kg)	3.59 ± 0.88	3.52 ± 0.38	3.61 ± 0.30	3.12 ± 0.13
Age of overweight beginning (yr)	5.43 ± 1.12	6.28 ± 2.92	4.05 ± 2.27	7.44 ± 3.87
Duration (yr)	4.67 ± 3.01	5.67 ± 3.27	4.67 ± 2.73	3.80 ± 3.70
BMI of patients (kg/m2)	26.87 ± 1.52	27.75 ± 3.06	26.51 ± 1.66	28.62 ± 1.28
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)	114.50 ± 16.03	132.33 ± 8.40	106.00 ± 7.87	116.00 ± 17.15
Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)	66.50 ± 9.77	72.83 ± 12.45	71.40 ± 16.37	74.17 ± 5.63
Blood total cholesterol (mmol/L)	4.08 ± 0.38	4.07 ± 0.80	4.73 ± 0.73	3.87 ± 0.91
Blood triglyceride (mmol/L)	2.54 ± 2.33	1.11 ± 0.39	1.65 ± 0.47	1.22 ± 0.55
FBG/FINS-mmol/mIU	0.384 ± 0.119	0.395 ± 0.094	0.471 ± 0.108	0.218 ± 0.140
HOMA-IAI-mIU · mmol · 1-2
Mean (LOG10)	-1.90 ± 0.38	-1.87 ± 0.24	-1.89 ± 0.51	-2.00 ± 0.10
HOMA-IR-mIU · mmol · 1-2
Mean	4.82	3.72	4.48	4.52
95% CI	2.61-9.03	2.15-5.89	3.66-6.62	3.28-5.76
HOMA-IS-mIU/mmol
Mean (LOG10)	2.04-0.33	1.82-0.30	2.22-0.34c	2.58-0.06ace

BT-I: Boys of Tanner I; BT-II: Boys of Tanner II; GT-I: Girls of Tanner I; GT-II: Girls of Tanner II. Data are expressed as mean ± SD for Gaussian variables and as the median with lower and higher quartiles for non-Gaussian variables.

^aP < 0.05 vs BT-II;

^cP < 0.05 vs BT-II;

^eP < 0.05 vs GT-I.