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Table 1 Clinical and biochemical characteristics

From: Relationship between hemoglobin and insulin-like growth factor-1 in children and adolescents with idiopathic short stature

Variables

All

N

178

Sex (male %)

138 (77.53%)

Age (years)

10.4 ± 3.8

Bone age (years)

8.5 ± 4.1

Height (cm)

126.47 ± 19.62

Height SDS

−2.71 (−3.18--2.31)

Mother’s height (cm)

155.38 ± 5.54

Father’s height (cm)

167.59 ± 5.41

Body weight (kg)

27.29 ± 10.76

BMI (kg/m2)

16.38 ± 2.57

IGF-1 (ng/mL)

175.50 (90.05–273.75)

IGF-1 SDS

− 0.99 (− 1.60--0.09)

Hb (g/L)

131.81 ± 9.36

Cr (umol/L)

38.75 ± 9.75

BUN (umol/L)

4.65 ± 1.15

UA (umol/L)

268.55 ± 75.63

TG (mmol/L)

0.65 ± 0.24

TC (mmol/L)

3.79 ± 0.66

HDL (mmol/L)

1.35 ± 0.27

LDL (mmol/L)

2.07 ± 0.51

ALT(U/L)

15.68 ± 6.87

FPG (mmol/L)

4.80 ± 0.58

Estradiol (pg/mL)

17.83 (11.80–26.79)

Testosterone (ng/mL)

0.25 (0.10–0.86)

Pubertal stage

 Prepubertal (%)

129 (72.47%)

 Pubertal (%)

49 (27.53%)

  1. Abbreviations:Height SDS height standard deviation scores, BMI body mass index, IGF-1 SDS insulin like growth factor-1 standard deviation scores, Hb hemoglobin, Cr creatinine, BUN blood urea nitrogen, UA uric acid, TG triglyceride, TC total cholesterol, HDL-C high density lipoprotein-cholesterol, LDL-C low density lipoprotein cholesterol, ALT alanine aminotransferase, FPG fasting plasma glucose
  2. Normal distribution of data was presented as mean ± standard deviation; nonnormal distribution of data was presented as median (interquartile range) and categorical data using number (percentage)
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BMC Endocrine Disorders

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