Effects of an Intensive Lifestyle Intervention to Treat Overweight/Obese Children and Adolescents
Table 1
Children’s data. Descriptive, Paired Sample -test of the anthropometric measure at -. Data are presented as mean ± SD.
Characteristics
Cohen’s d
Anthropometric data
Children (5–12)
BMI (kg/m2)
27.62 ± 3.50
26.71 ± 3.18
3.96
.001
.27
WC (cm)
91.82 ± 10.20
89.23 ± 9.24
4.02
.001
.27
WTHR (cm)
0.63 ± 0.05
0.61 ± 0.04
3.36
.002
.44
FM (kg)
24.37 ± 8.51
21.96 ± 8.38
3.03
.005
.28
FM (%)
41.21 ± 8.06
35.34 ± 5.82
4.61
.001
.83
FFM (kg)
35.86 ± 6.69
38.72 ± 7.97
−3.86
.001
.39
FFM (%)
61.60 ± 5.70
64.53 ± 6.05
−4.77
.001
.50
Statistical significance was considered at ; BMI = Body mass index; WC = waist circumference; WHTR = waist to height ratio; FM = fat body mass; FFM = fat-free mass.
