Autistic, Aberrant, and Food-Related Behaviors in Adolescents and Young Adults with Prader-Willi Syndrome: The Effects of Age and Genotype

Table 1

Participants’ characteristics.

	Total		DEL		mUPD		value
	Adolescents	Young adults	Adolescents	Young adults	Adolescents	Young adults	Total	DEL	mUPD
Number	20	45	14	35	6	10
Male/female	9/11	26/19	6/8	21/14	3/3	5/5
Mean age	14.00	22.29	14.29	22.43	13.33	21.5
Age range	12–17	18–29	12–17	18–29	12–17	319–25
BMI	22.99	32.58	23.89	32.12	21.02	34.11	0.000	0.012	0.005
BMI range	14.38–49.45	17.29–72.23	14.38–49.45	17.29–61.81	15.27-28.83	22.31–72.23
IQ mean (N)	44.38 (16)	49.19 (36)	47.2 (10)	49.48 (27)	39.67 (6)	48.33 (9)	0.008	0.271	0.002
IQ range	39–62	39–76	39–62	39–76	39–41	40–62

values from the Mann–Whitney U test. . .