Table 1 Summary of descriptive statistics of study participants characteristics of non-obese and obese samples
From: Differential genome-wide DNA methylation patterns in childhood obesity
Non-obese sample (N = 26) | Obese sample (N = 5) | t (df); p-value | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean | Std. deviation | Mean | Std. deviation | ||
Children | |||||
Waist-to-height ratio | 0.430 | 0.028 | 0.551 | 0.073 | t(3.157) = − 3.292; 0.043 |
Skinfolds-sum | 44.029 | 14.478 | 85.067 | 12.615 | t(26) = − 5.854; < 0.001 |
BMI | 20.423 | 2.238 | 31.449 | 3.743 | t(29) = − 9.030; < 0.001 |
PNMS | |||||
Objective hardship | 11.039 | 4.219 | 12.200 | 4.764 | t(29) = − 0.553; 0.584 |
Subjective distress | 9.454 | 9.639 | 5.800 | 3.768 | t(29) = 0.826; 0.416 |
Children’s birth characteristics | |||||
Birth weight (g) | 3362.040 | 714.620 | 3708.522 | 105.164 | t(27.541) = − 2.303; 0.029 |
Birth length (cm) | 50.716 | 3.512 | 50.500 | 1.581 | t(28) = 0.133; 0.895 |
Ponderal index at birth | 25.860 | 3.483 | 28.991 | 2.928 | t(28) = − 1.875; 0.071 |