Table 3.
Frequency and prevalence of wasting, overweight and obesity by age, comparing the WHO standards and the NCHS reference: children aged less than 5 years (n 2644), La Plata, Argentina, October 2003–April 2005
| Wasting | Overweight | Obesity | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WHO | NCHS | WHO | NCHS | WHO | NCHS | |||||||
| Age group | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % |
| 0–6 months | 46 | 4·4 | 9 | 0·9 | 72 | 6·9 | 27 | 2·6 | 6 | 0·6 | 4 | 0·4 |
| 1 year | 10 | 1·2 | 7 | 0·8 | 73 | 8·4 | 5 | 0·6 | 9 | 1·0 | 1 | 0·1 |
| 2–5 years | 12 | 1·6 | 20 | 2·7 | 38 | 5·2 | 3 | 0·4 | 3 | 0·4 | 0 | 0·0 |
| Total | 68 | 2·6 | 36 | 1·4 | 183 | 6·9 | 35 | 1·3 | 18 | 0·7 | 5 | 0·2 |
WHO standards, 2006 WHO Child Growth Standards; NCHS, 1977 National Center for Health Statistics international growth reference.