Change of Body Composition and Adipokines and Their Relationship with Insulin Resistance across Pubertal Development in Obese and Nonobese Chinese Children: The BCAMS Study

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(a) Body mass index (BMI), (b) waist circumference (WC), (c) fat mass percentage (FAT%) and pubertal development. Data were expressed as means ± 95% CI. ^#𝑃<0.05 compared with T1 of the same gender; *𝑃<0.05 compared between boys and girls of the same Tanner stage. Two-sample 𝑡-test for comparison between girls and boys and one-way ANOVA with five groups (T1 to T5) to compare characteristics across these five Tanner stages, were used.

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