Insulin resistance and adiponectin levels are associated with height catch-up growth in pre-pubertal Chinese individuals born small for gestational age

Table 2 Clinical and anthropometric parameters of SGA and AGA children at birth and investigation

	SGA-I with catch-up growth	SGA-II with catch-up growth	SGA-I without catch-up growth	SGA-II without catch-up growth	AGA
	n=40	n=16	n=37	n=18	n=52
Gender(M:F)	17:23	9:7	21:16	10:8	29:23
Midparental height (cm)	161.38±0.80	162.27±0.45	162.75±0.54	162.00±0.73	160.14±0.44
Age(year)	6.78±0.88	6.27±0.96	5.30±0.67	5.91±0.98	7.14±0.39
Gestational age (weeks)	38.76±0.21	39.17±0.19	38.76±0.21	39.17±0.19	39.23±0.14
Birth weight SDS	−2.27±0.18^*	−1.82±0.39^*	−2.61±0.11^*	−1.83±0.25^*	0.23±0.04
Birth length SDS	−2.42±0.14^*	−3.00±0.25^*	−2.02±0.21^*	−2.29±0.19^*	0.14±0.03
Birth BMI SDS	−1.51±0.37^*	−1.29±0.45^*	−1.91±0.45^*	−1.47±0.38^*	0.39±0.24
Weight SDS	−1.65±0.41	−2.18±0.53	−2.11±0.37	−4.02±0.57^*	−1.41±0.25
Height SDS_Corrected	−0.93±0.22	−1.49±0.15	−3.24±0.18^*	−2.82±0.29^*	−1.05±0.07
BMI SDS	−0.15±0.19 ^#	−1.18±0.19	−0.76±0.25 ^#	−1.63±0.25^*	−0.32±0.12
△Height SDS	1.57±0.27^*	1.51±0.21^*	−1.24±0.26	−1.21±0.23	−0.73±0.28
△Weight SDS	0.63±0.39^{* #}	−0.36±0.34	0.50±0.35^{* #}	−2.19±0.46	−1.52±0.37
△BMI SDS	1.36±0.47^*^#	−0.06±0.35	1.33±0.36^{* #}	−0.17±0.34	−0.71±0.25

*P<0.05 SGA-I or SGA-II vs AGA; ^#P<0.05 SGA-I vs SGA-II.
AGA: Appropriate for gestational age; SGA: Small for gestational age; BMI: Body mass index; △Height SDS: Current height SDS corrected minus birth length SDS; △Weight SDS: Current Weight SDS minus birth Weight SDS; △BMI SDS: Current BMI SDS minus birth BMI SDS.

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