Table 4.
Distribution of Chinese university student participants by BMI class (%)
| Project | N | BMI | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emaciated | Normal | Overweight | Obesity | ||
| Boys | |||||
| 19 yrs | 4093 | 535(13.1) | 2469(60.3) | 962(23.5) | 127(3.1) |
| 20 yrs | 4796 | 466(9.7) | 3168(66.1) | 1107(23.1) | 55(1.1) |
| 21 yrs | 3764 | 289(7.7) | 2623(69.7) | 693(18.4) | 159(4.2) |
| 22 yrs | 3757 | 278(7.4) | 2580(68.7) | 756(20.1) | 143(3.8) |
| 19–22 yrs | 16,410 | 1568(9.6) | 10,840(66.1) | 3518(21.4) | 484(2.9) |
| Girls | |||||
| 19 yrs | 4052 | 1025(25.3) | 2619(64.6) | 348(8.6) | 60(1.5) |
| 20 yrs | 3700 | 1032(27.9) | 2413(65.2) | 221(6.0) | 34(0.9) |
| 21 yrs | 2859 | 816(28.5) | 1860(65.1) | 167(5.8) | 16(0.6) |
| 22 yrs | 2350 | 785(33.4) | 1439(61.2) | 123(5.2) | 3(0.1) |
| 19–22 yrs | 12,961 | 3658(28.2) | 8331(64.3) | 859(6.6) | 113(0.9) |
| Total | |||||
| 19 yrs | 8145 | 1560(19.2) | 5088(62.5) | 1310(16.1) | 187(2.3) |
| 20 yrs | 8496 | 1498(17.6) | 5581(65.7) | 1328(15.6) | 89(1.0) |
| 21 yrs | 6623 | 1105(16.7) | 4483(67.7) | 860(13.0) | 175(2.6) |
| 22 yrs | 6107 | 1063(17.4) | 4019(65.8) | 879(14.4) | 146(2.4) |
| 19–22 yrs | 29,371 | 5226(17.8) | 19,171(65.3) | 4377(14.9) | 597(2.0) |