Table 1 Characteristics of mothers before and after the bariatric surgery.

From: Impact of maternal cardiometabolic status after bariatric surgery on the association between telomere length and adiposity in offspring

 

Before

After

p

Clinical parameters

   

 Age at delivery (years)

27.1 (4.5)

34.2 (3.5)

0.001

 Paritya

1 [1, 2]

2 [2–4]

 < 0.001

 Weight (kg)

125.8 (17.9)

80.6 (16.5)

 < 0.001

 BMI (kg/m2)

48.0 (7.7)

31.0 (6.9)

 < 0.001

 Waist circumference (cm)

136.6 (13.5)

100.9 (18.7)

 < 0.001

 Waist-height ratio

0.85 (0.09)

0.63 (0.12)

0.001

 Fasting glucose (mmol/l)

5.21 (1.61)

4.60 (0.39)

0.25

 Total-cholesterol (mmol/l)

4.56 (0.85)

3.83 (0.60)

0.04

 HDL-cholesterol (mmol/l)

1.13 (0.25)

1.52 (0.51)

0.04

 LDL-cholesterol (mmol/l)

2.58 (0.79)

1.76 (0.48)

0.01

 Triglycerides (mmol/l)

1.82 (0.82)

1.18 (0.51)

0.05

Metabolic indices

 LDL-C/HDL-C ratio

2.51 (1.24)

1.32 (0.68)

0.01

 Non-HDL-C/HDL-C ratio

3.36 (1.72)

1.74 (0.97)

0.011

 TG/HDL-C ratio

1.78 (1.08)

0.93 (0.67)

0.04

 TyG index

8.82 (0.31)

8.31 (0.39)

0.004

  1. Variables are expressed as means (standard deviation) (n = 11). p stands for p-value for two-tailed paired t-test. Significant differences are in bold.
  2. aParity was expressed as median [range] and Mann–Whitney U test.
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