Total Oxidant and Antioxidant Status in Prepubertal Children with Obesity

Table 3

Correlations between serum concentrations of oxidative status markers and clinical/biochemical parameters in children with obesity ().

	TOC		TAC		OSI		ox-LDL
	r	value	r	value	r	value	r	value
Duration of obesity	0.32	0.01	0.15	0.2	0.17	0.2	−0.16	0.2
Age	0.12	0.4	0.09	0.5	0.03	0.8	−0.09	0.5
BMI z-score	0.03	0.8	0.15	0.2	−0.09	0.4	−0.15	0.2
CRP	0.20	0.2	0.36	0.009	−0.04	0.8	0.05	0.7
Glucose	0.06	0.7	0.10	0.5	0.06	0.6	−0.14	0.3
Cholesterol total	−0.08	0.6	−0.06	0.6	−0.01	0.9	0.01	0.9
HDL cholesterol	0.01	0.9	−0.04	0.7	−0.04	0.8	0.10	0.5
LDL cholesterol	−0.12	0.4	−0.03	0.8	−0.06	0.7	0.01	0.9
Triglycerides	−0.03	0.8	−0.07	0.6	0.09	0.5	0.07	0.6

r: Pearson’s correlation coefficient; ; TOC: total oxidant capacity; TAC: total antioxidant capacity; ox-LDL: oxidized low-density lipoprotein; OSI: oxidative stress index; CRP: C-reactive protein.