The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery

Table 7 Effect of thyroid profile on rate of growth, weight, BMI and blood pressure

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

	Thyroid code												ANOVA
	Normal			Hypothyroid			Subclinical hypothyroid			Subclinical hyperthyroid			ANOVA
	Mean	±	SD	Mean	±	SD	Mean	±	SD	Mean	±	SD	F	P-value
Age (years)	9.666	±	3.707	9.995	±	4.399	7.792	±	2.193	9.456	±	4.684	0.563	0.640
Height in the 1st year (cm)	129.535	±	19.310	125.316	±	21.968	119.333	±	13.079	127.200	±	23.878	0.784	0.505
Height in the 2nd year (cm)	137.365	±	19.704	128.980	±	21.791	125.333	±	13.765	132.700	±	23.470	2.095	0.103
Increase in height in 1 year (cm)	7.218	±	1.812	3.622	±	1.897	6.000	±	1.095	5.500	±	2.353	38.229	< 0.001*
Weight (kg)	35.971	±	15.435	34.378	±	17.194	28.333	±	11.343	33.000	±	17.130	0.547	0.651
BMI	18.499	±	4.106	19.635	±	3.991	17.833	±	2.858	17.520	±	3.189	1.521	0.211
DBP	68.706	±	9.579	77.551	±	9.581	70.833	±	5.845	71.000	±	8.701	9.239	< 0.001*
Age of onset (years)	4.924	±	3.496	4.969	±	3.049	3.333	±	2.251	3.750	±	2.403	1.018	0.386
SBP	103.824	±	14.893	115.102	±	14.595	102.500	±	10.840	102.667	±	13.998	6.989	< 0.001*

Tukey's test
	I&II	I&III	I&IV	II&III	II&IV	III&IV
Age (years)	0.968	0.684	0.998	0.581	0.968	0.825
Height in the 1st year (cm)	0.660	0.641	0.977	0.906	0.989	0.857
Height in the 2nd year (cm)	0.110	0.512	0.850	0.977	0.928	0.881
Increase in height in 1 year (cm)	< 0.001*	0.419	0.007*	0.020*	0.005*	0.946
Weight (kg)	0.946	0.674	0.912	0.820	0.991	0.931
BMI	0.381	0.979	0.814	0.719	0.272	0.998
DBP	< 0.001*	0.950	0.820	0.353	0.089	1.000
Age of onset (years)	1.000	0.650	0.567	0.647	0.578	0.993
SBP	< 0.001*	0.996	0.992	0.194	0.023*	1.000

BMI body mass index, DBP diastolic blood pressure, SBP systolic 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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