Table 5.
Percentage of Adolescents Aged 12 to 18a (N = 3528) With Selected Health Conditions, by Weight Category,b North Carolina, 2004
| Health Condition | Average Expend. $ | Percentage of Adolescents With Health Condition | ||||||
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| Underweight (n = 49) | Normal Weight (n = 1841) | At Riskc (n = 619) | Overweight (n = 1019) | |||||
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| % | P Valued | % | % | P Valued | % | P Valued | ||
| Infection | 17 | 8.2 | .46 | 12.8 | 12.9 | .97 | 13.7 | .50 |
| Neoplasm | 19 | 0.0 | .85 | 1.4 | 1.6 | .79 | 0.9 | .35 |
| Diabetes | 9 | 0.0 | .45 | 0.4 | 0.5 | .99 | 1.7 | .001 |
| Mental disorder | 2643 | 26.5 | .64 | 22.6 | 22.0 | .77 | 20.1 | .13 |
| Circulatory problem | 38 | 0.0 | .83 | 1.4 | 0.3 | .05 | 2.3 | .13 |
| Asthma | 13 | 6.1 | .97 | 4.9 | 6.6 | .13 | 7.6 | .01 |
| Other respiratory problem | 54 | 26.5 | .97 | 25.3 | 27.9 | .20 | 30.3 | .004 |
| Digestive problem | 34 | 14.3 | .11 | 7.2 | 7.4 | .90 | 7.6 | .76 |
| Musculoskeletal problem | 62 | 18.4 | .96 | 17.6 | 18.4 | .69 | 17.7 | .99 |
| Ill-defined condition | 98 | 42.9 | .05 | 29.1 | 31.1 | .34 | 30.5 | .44 |
| Injury | 130 | 16.3 | .16 | 26.2 | 25.8 | .89 | 22.7 | .04 |
| Obesity | 3 | 0.0 | .12 | 0.2 | 1.1 | .004 | 12.0 | <.001 |
| Well-child care | 52 | 53.1 | .62 | 57.7 | 54.4 | .17 | 50.6 | <.001 |
Adolescents enrolled in Medicaid for at least 11 months in 2004.
Weight categories: underweight, body mass index (BMI) less than the 5th percentile; normal weight, BMI 5th to 84th percentile; at risk for overweight, BMI 85th to 94th percentile; overweight, BMI 95th or greater percentile.
At risk for overweight.
We used chi square tests to compare the percentage of adolescents in the normal-weight group with each percentage of adolescents in the underweight, at-risk-for-overweight, and overweight groups. P values of less than .05 indicate differences that are statistically significant at the 95% confidence level (two-tail test).