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Table 7 Girls with severe trunk asymmetry

From: Relatively lower body mass index is associated with an excess of severe truncal asymmetry in healthy adolescents: Do white adipose tissue, leptin, hypothalamus and sympathetic nervous system influence truncal growth asymmetry?

  

Menarche

     
  

No

Yes

 
  

Count

%

Total

Count

%

Total

p

T (Standing)

Beyond +/- 2 SD (Right)

72

5.85

1230

71

4.15

1712

0.088

 

Beyond +/- 2 SD (Left)

23

1.87

 

38

2.22

  

TL (Standing)

Beyond +/- 2 SD (Right)

42

3.41

1230

48

2.80

1712

0.505

 

Beyond +/- 2 SD (Left)

24

1.95

 

40

2.34

  

L (Standing)

Beyond +/- 2 SD (Right)

38

3.09

1230

35

2.04

1712

0.077

 

Beyond +/- 2 SD (Left)

12

0.98

 

27

1.58

  

T (Sitting)

Beyond +/- 2 SD (Right)

66

5.37

1229

81

4.73

1712

0.641

 

Beyond +/- 2 SD (Left)

19

1.55

 

31

1.81

  

TL (Sitting)

Beyond +/- 2 SD (Right)

58

4.72

1230

62

3.62

1711

0.212

 

Beyond +/- 2 SD (Left)

33

2.68

 

37

2.16

  

L (Sitting)

Beyond +/- 2 SD (Right)

33

2.69

1229

79

4.61

1712

0.022

 

Beyond +/- 2 SD (Left)

33

2.69

 

39

2.28

  
  1. Numbers premenarcheal and postmenarcheal in standing and sitting FB positions by back hump laterality and spinal region.