Research Article
TG : HDL-C Ratio Is a Good Marker to Identify Children Affected by Obesity with Increased Cardiometabolic Risk and Insulin Resistance
Table 1
Clinical characteristics of 232 children by gender.
| | | Boys (n = 114, 49.2%) | Girls (n = 118, 50.8%) | X2 | value | All |
| | Age (mean ± SD) | 12.7 ± 2.0 | 13.3 ± 1.98 | NA | 0.02a | 12.6 ± 2.01 | | Pubertal status | | Prepubertal | 42 (37.2) | 29 (25.4) | 3.632 | 0.07 | 71 (31.3) | | Pubertal (Tanner stage ≥ 2) | 71 (62.8) | 85 (74.6) | | | 156 (68.7) | | Abdominal obesity | | WC < 90th centile | 11 (9.6) | 15 (12.7) | 0.547 | 0.46 | 26 (11.2) | | WC ≥ 90th centile | 103 (90.4) | 103 (87.3) | | | 206 (88.8) | | BMI z-score >1 or 2 SD | | Overweight | 17 (14.9) | 33 (28) | 5.884 | 0.02 | 50 (21.6) | | Obese | 97 (85.1) | 85 (72) | | | 182 (78.4) | | Acanthosis nigricans | | Presence | 47 (42) | 74 (65.5) | 12.52 | <0.001 | 121 (53.8) | | Absence | 65 (58) | 39 (34.5) | | | 104 (46.2) | | Insulin resistance | | Prepubertal | | | | | | | HOMA-IR < 2.6 | 15 (35.7) | 9 (31) | 0.168 | 0.68 | 24 (33.8) | | HOMA-IR ≥ 2.6 | 27 (64.3) | 20 (68.9) | | | 47 (66.2) | | Pubertal | | | | | | | HOMA-IR < 4 | 35 (49.2) | 44 (54.3) | 0.094 | 0.76 | 79 (50.6) | | HOMA-IR ≥ 4 | 36 (50.8) | 41 (45.7) | | | 77 (49.4) | | Liver enzyme test | | Low risk (ALT : AST >1) | 97 (85.1) | 104 (88.1) | 0.465 | 0.495 | 201 (86.6) | | High risk (ALT : AST≤1) | 17 (14.9) | 14 (11.9) | | | 31 (13.4) | | Metabolic syndrome | | Nonmetabolic syndrome | 101 (88.6) | 108 (91.5) | 0.557 | 0.455 | 209 (90.1) | | With metabolic syndrome | 13 (11.4) | 10 (8.5) | | | 23 (9.9) |
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aIndependent-group t-test; NA: not available.
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