The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery

Table 5 Comparison between cases and controls regarding age, increase in height in 1 year, weight, BMI and diastolic blood pressure:

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

	Group						T-test
	Cases			Control			T-test
	Mean	±	SD	Mean	±	SD	T	P-value
Age (years)	9.677	±	3.981	9.279	±	4.348	0.698	0.486
Height in the 1st year (cm)	127.581	±	20.435	126.615	±	21.984	0.332	0.740
Height in the 2nd year (cm)	133.797	±	20.816	133.263	±	22.204	0.181	0.857
Increase in height in 1 year (cm)	5.868	±	2.465	6.647	±	2.204	− 2.358	0.019*
Weight (kg)	34.884	±	15.991	35.288	±	19.853	− 0.168	0.867
BMI	18.737	±	3.977	18.449	±	5.514	0.457	0.648
DBP	71.806	±	10.127	68.590	±	7.066	2.513	0.013*

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

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