Table 2 Characteristics of children born before versus after the maternal bariatric surgery.

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

 

Before

After

p

At birth characteristics

 Sex (Male (%))

6 (50.0)

4 (33.3)

0.68

 Weight (kg)

3.2 (0.9)

2.67 (0.5)

0.10

 Height (cm)

49.7 (4.5)

47.7 (2.5)

0.20

At visit characteristics

 Age (Years)

19.8 (7.1)

12.8 (7.1)

0.03

 BMI z-score

1.06 (1.38)

1.00 (1.03)

0.90

 Waist-height ratio

0.54 (0.11)

0.57 (0.12)

0.50

 Body Fat (%)

31.2 (14.8)

29.5 (8.8)

0.76

  1. Variables are expressed as means (standard deviation) (n = 24, except for body fat measurement; n = 22). p stands for p-value for two-tailed unpaired t-test. Significant differences are in bold.
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