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Table 2 Association between IGF-1 SDS and different variables (n = 178)

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

Variables

B

(95% CI)

P value

Age (years)

0.10

(0.06, 0.15)

< 0.001

Bone age (years)

0.11

(0.07, 0.15)

< 0.001

Height SDS

0.60

(0.32, 0.89)

< 0.001

Mother’s height (cm)

−0.01

(−0.04, 0.03)

0.739

Father’s height (cm)

0.01

(−0.03, 0.04)

0.735

Body weight (kg)

0.06

(0.04, 0.07)

< 0.001

BMI (kg/m2)

0.20

(0.13, 0.26)

< 0.001

Hb (g/L)

0.04

(0.03, 0.06)

< 0.001

Cr (umol/L)

0.03

(0.01, 0.05)

< 0.001

BUN (umol/L)

−0.03

(−0.20, 0.13)

0.697

UA (umol/L)

0.01

(0.00, 0.01)

0.017

TG (mmol/L)

0.29

(−0.51, 1.09)

0.480

TC (mmol/L)

−0.20

(−0.50, 0.09)

0.177

HDL (mmol/L)

−0.36

(−1.08, 0.35)

0.316

LDL (mmol/L)

−0.25

(−0.63, 0.13)

0.193

ALT(U/L)

0.02

(−0.01, 0.05)

0.145

FPG (mmol/L)

0.41

(0.08, 0.74)

0.014

Estradiol (pg/mL)

0.02

(0.01, 0.03)

< 0.001

Testosterone (ng/mL)

0.35

(0.17, 0.53)

< 0.001

Sex

 Male

reference

 Female

−0.33

(−0.76, 0.11)

0.142

Pubertal stage

 Prepubertal (%)

reference

 Pubertal (%)

0.96

(0.55, 1.36)

< 0.001

  1. Abbreviations:Height SDS height standard deviation scores, BMI body mass index, 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. B unstandardized regression coefficient. P < 0.05 is considered to be statistically signifcant