Table 1.
Physical characteristics and biochemical parameters of boys and girls at ages 5 and 10 years.
Table 2.
Weight, BMI and WFH at 5, 10 years of age and change of them according to fasting insulin quartiles at 5 years of age.
Table 3.
Predictors of weight gain in children of early childhood Dependent Variable
Fig 1.
The change of weight during a 5-year follow-up related to the plasma fasting insulin and weight at baseline.
With the increase of fasting insulin and weight at baseline, weight increased gradually and became greater. The mean value weight gain during the 5-year follow-up in the top weight at baseline tertile was significant greater than that in the lowest tertile in each fasting insulin at baseline quartile (p<0.01).The greatest weight gain was in the top quartile of fasting insulin and meanwhile in the top tertile of weight at baseline. Baseline fasting insulin significantly correlated with ΔWeight in the subgroup of top and middle weight tertile (r = 0.39, P<0.0001 and r = 0.33, P<0.0001, respectively), but not in the lowest weight tertile subgroups at baseline (r = 14, P>0.05).