Sex Differences in the Association between Level of Childhood Interleukin-6 and Insulin Resistance in Adolescence

Table 3

Pearson correlations between IL-6 at age 9 yrs and IL-6 and HOMA-IR at age 13 yrs in groups based on sexual maturation and adjusted for HOMA age 9 yrs.

		𝑛	𝑟
Boys	Tanner stages 1–3	83	0.006
	Tanner stages 4-5	63	0.107
Girls	Tanner stages 1–3	41	0.286^†
	Tanner stages 4-5	99	0.218*

Significant correlations in bold face. *𝑃 value = 0.031. ^†𝑃 value = 0.077, borderline significant.