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Table 2 Clinical and hormonal characteristics of infants with PWS at the time of ghrelin measurement during the first year of life according to their EOS status at the age of 4 years

From: Is ghrelin a biomarker of early-onset scoliosis in children with Prader–Willi syndrome?

 

PWS infants who later developed EOS n = 8

PWS infants who did not later develop EOS n = 29

p value

Sex—girls, n (%)

3 (37.5)

10 (34.5)

1.000

Age—month, median (IQR)

6.1 (3.6–10.3)

7.6 (4.8–9.1)

0.912

BMI—WHO z-score, median (IQR)a

 − 1.8 (− 2.5– − 1.1)

 − 1.1 (− 1.9–0.0)

0.110

Genetic subtype—deletion, n (%)a

4 (50.0)

12 (42.9)

1.000

IGF-1—z-score, median (IQR)b

 − 2.1 (− 2.5– − 1.3)

 − 1.1 (− 1.7– − 0.4)

0.008

  1. aOne non-scoliotic patient without data on height and unspecified genetic subtype
  2. bTwo patients, one in each group, without data on IGF-1