Psychological wellbeing and physical activity in children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease compared to healthy controls

Table 2 Anthropometrics and Blood values

	IBD-AD	IBD-RE	HC	Statistical Analysis
	(N = 8)	(N = 14)	(N = 24)	Statistical Analysis
	M ± SD	M ± SD	M ± SD	H	p	ηp2	Interpretation of effect size
Waist circumference (cm)	67.63 ± 9.04	65.65 ± 7.17	64.48 ± 8.29	0.384	0.823	0.01	s
Difference from norm	−9.81 ± 6.15	−8.68 ± 4.95	−8.82 ± 6.0	0.521	0.783	0	s
Height (cm)	153.48 ± 17.53	152.69 ± 12.02	152.26 ± 18.0	0.212	0.903	0	s
Weight to height (%)	44.08 ± 3.07	42.94 ± 2.13	42.77 ± 3.49	1.108	0.585	0.02	s
Weight (kg)	45.28 ± 15.85	42.79 ± 12.83	44.37 ± 15.75	0.215	0.899	0	s
BMI	18.6 ± 3.37	17.91 ± 2.78	18.36 ± 3.16	0.074	0.965	0.12	m
BMI z-score	−0.588 ± 0.79	−0.34 ± 0.95	−0.19 ± 0.87	1.368	0.511	0.1	m
Percentile BMI vs Age	31.98 ± 24.31	39.82 ± 26.23	43.89 ± 26.43	1.386	0.516	0.1	m
z-score Height vs Age	−0.911 ± 1.73	0.02 ± 0.86	0.19 ± 1.01	2.234	0.334	0.1	m
Percentile Height vs Age	32.04 ± 32.99	52.91 ± 25.71	54.83 ± 31.53	2.236	0.333	0.07	m
Albumin [g/l]	23 ± 21.94	19.32 ± 19.20	20.79 ± 18.76	0.767	0.686	0	s
CRP [mg/l]	3.02 ± 4.56	3.28 ± 5.69	0.71 ± 0.85	4.159	0.125	0.13	m
Hemoglobin [g/l]	139.25 ± 8.62	134.92 ± 16.26	135.86 ± 12.33	1.423	0.493	0.01	s
ESR [mm/h]	4.83 ± 0.36	4.87 ± 0.54	4.88 ± 0.36	0.281	0.874	0	s
Hematocrit [%]	39.4 ± 2.11	38.09 ± 3.99	38.75 ± 3.17	0.359	0.837	0.02	s
Thrombocyts [×10^9/l]	323.25 ± 55.61	302.58 ± 56.15	271.55 ± 46.54	11.211	0.003	0.13	m
Leukocyten [×10^9/l]	10.16 ± 2.01	9.28 ± 2.83	8.25 ± 1.29	4.088	0.13	0.11	m

Notes: N = 46, degrees of freedom always = 2, 41, p < .05 statistically significant; effect sizes: small (s) = .01 > ηp2 < .059, medium (m) = .06 > ηp < .139, or large (l) = ηp ≥ .14
IBD-AD IBD in an active state of the disease, IBD-RE IBD in remission, HC Healthy Control, Waist circumference norm references is Taylor et al. [19], BMI Body Mass Index; CRP C-reactive protein, ESR Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate

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