Effects of an Intensive Lifestyle Intervention to Treat Overweight/Obese Children and Adolescents
Table 2
Adolescent’s data. Descriptive, Paired Sample -test of the anthropometric measure at and . Data are presented as mean ± SD.
Characteristics
Cohen’s d
Anthropometric data
Adolescents (13–17)
BMI (kg/m2)
32.50 ± 5.30
31.43 ± 5.76
5.20
.001
.19
WC (cm)
106.22 ± 12.52
102.00 ± 11.66
5.60
.001
.35
WHTR (cm)
0.65 ± 0.09
0.63 ± 0.08
2.68
.012
.23
FM (kg)
36.55 ± 11.24
33.38 ± 12.38
4.76
.001
.27
FM (%)
40.55 ± 6.86
36.98 ± 7.38
4.52
.001
.50
FFM (kg)
52.97 ± 7.13
54.83 ± 8.57
−2.14
.044
.24
FFM (%)
59.79 ± 8.25
63.01 ± 7.38
−3.17
.004
.41
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.
