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Table 11 Effect of monotherapy on increase in height in 1 year and diastolic blood pressure

From: Effect of anti-epileptic drugs usage on thyroid profile in Egyptian epileptic children

	Monotherapy															ANOVA
	Levetiracetam I			Carbamazepine II			Oxcarbazepine III			Valproic acid IV			Control V			ANOVA
	Mean	±	SD	Mean	±	SD	Mean	±	SD	Mean	±	SD	Mean	±	SD	F	P-value
Age (years)	8.432	±	2.758	11.518	±	4.310	8.923	±	4.084	9.503	±	4.251	9.279	±	4.348	1.293	0.276
Height in the 1st year (cm)	122.682	±	15.132	134.357	±	21.048	124.692	±	19.981	127.389	±	21.503	126.615	±	21.984	0.716	0.582
Height in the 2nd year (cm)	129.568	±	16.043	139.143	±	21.828	130.231	±	20.790	134.074	±	21.450	133.263	±	22.204	0.514	0.726
Increase in height in 1 year (cm)	6.795	±	1.743	4.786	±	2.933	5.615	±	1.927	6.685	±	3.045	6.647	±	2.204	2.445	0.049*
Weight (kg)	31.136	±	13.002	39.143	±	18.418	31.308	±	15.892	34.704	±	16.326	35.288	±	19.853	0.564	0.689
BMI	17.655	±	4.046	20.493	±	4.264	18.000	±	5.050	18.222	±	3.776	18.449	±	5.514	0.791	0.533
DBP	67.727	±	7.827	78.214	±	9.924	69.615	±	8.771	69.444	±	8.243	68.590	±	7.066	4.896	0.001*

Tukey's test
	I&II	I&III	I&IV	I&V	II&III	II&IV	II&V	III&IV	III&V	IV&V
Age (years)	0.188	0.997	0.894	0.914	0.477	0.574	0.336	0.994	0.998	0.999
Height in the 1st year (cm)	0.474	0.999	0.934	0.935	0.748	0.848	0.703	0.995	0.998	1.000
Height in the 2nd year (cm)	0.677	1.000	0.946	0.951	0.810	0.950	0.874	0.983	0.989	1.000
Increase in height in 1 year (cm)	0.100	0.613	1.000	0.999	0.893	0.112	0.057	0.668	0.593	1.000
Weight (kg)	0.691	1.000	0.958	0.874	0.790	0.944	0.947	0.981	0.947	1.000
BMI	0.444	1.000	0.994	0.963	0.681	0.627	0.607	1.000	0.998	1.000
DBP	0.001*	0.958	0.940	0.991	0.039*	0.007*	< 0.001*	1.000	0.992	0.988

BMI body mass index, DBP diastolic blood pressure, cm centimeter, kg kilogram, SD standard deviation, ANOVA analysis of variance. P value < 0.05 statistically significant, P value < 0.01 statistically highly significant

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