Table 1.
Anthropometric measurements, according to sex and categorisation as normal weight or obese*, among children aged 9·00–11·99 years (n 1023), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, December 2015–March 2016
| Boys | Girls | All children | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal weight (n 236) | Obese (n 232) | Normal weight (n 290) | Obese n 265) | Normal weight (n 526) | Obese (n 497) | ||||||||||||||||
| Measurement | n or Mean | % or sd | n or Mean | % or sd | P value | OR | 95 % CI | n or Mean | % or sd | n or Mean | % or sd | P value | OR | 95 %CI | n or Mean | % or sd | n or Mean | % or sd | P value | OR | 95 %CI |
| Age group (years) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 09–<10 | 81 | 34·3 | 79 | 34·1 | 0·394 | 1·00 | Ref. | 92 | 31·8 | 88 | 33·2 | 0·578 | 1·00 | Ref. | 173 | 32·9 | 167 | 33·6 | 0·262 | 1·00 | Ref. |
| 10–<11 | 89 | 37·9 | 76 | 32·8 | – | 1·14 | 0·73, 1·76 | 104 | 35·9 | 84 | 31·7 | – | 1·18 | 0·78, 1·78 | 193 | 36·7 | 160 | 32·2 | – | 1·16 | 0·86, 1·56 |
| 11–<12 | 66 | 28·0 | 77 | 33·2 | – | 0·83 | 0·53, 1·31 | 94 | 32·0 | 93 | 35·1 | – | 0·96 | 0·64, 1·45 | 160 | 30·4 | 170 | 34·2 | – | 0·90 | 0·67, 1·23 |
| Age (years) | 9·94 | 0·79 | 9·99 | 0·82 | 0·461† | – | 10·01 | 0·80 | 10·02 | 0·82 | 0·863† | – | 9·98 | 0·79 | 10·01 | 0·82 | 0·544† | – | |||
| Weight (kg) | 33·7 | 6·2 | 55·8 | 10·4 | 0·000 | – | 34·8 | 7·0 | 53·0 | 11·5 | 0·000 | – | 34·3 | 6·6 | 54·3 | 11·1 | 0·000 | – | |||
| Height (cm) | 138·7 | 7·1 | 141·4 | 7·6 | 0·011 | – | 139·3 | 8·4 | 139·9 | 7·9 | 0·011 | – | 139·0 | 7·8 | 140·9 | 7·8 | 0·022 | – | |||
| WC (cm) | 67·9 | 6·7 | 86·3 | 9·4 | 0·000 | – | 65·8 | 7·0 | 78·9 | 8·4 | 0·000 | – | 66·8 | 6·9 | 82·3 | 9·6 | 0·000 | – | |||
| %BF (%) | 20·1 | 6·4 | 35·5 | 3·4 | 0·000 | – | 22·8 | 6·0 | 35·9 | 3·6 | 0·000 | – | 21·6 | 6·3 | 35·7 | 3·5 | 0·000 | – | |||
| BMI (kg/m2) | 17·4 | 2·0 | 27·7 | 3·3 | 0·000 | – | 17·8 | 2·1 | 26·5 | 2·8 | 0·000 | – | 17·6 | 2·0 | 27·1 | 3·1 | 0·000 | – | |||
WC, waist circumference; %BF, percentage of body fat; Ref., reference category.
Significant P values indicated in bold font.
*
Normal weight defined as ≥25th and ≤75th percentile and obese defined as ≥95th percentile of BMI-for-age percentile based on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data( 16 ).
†
P value from t test.