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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Mar 13.
Published in final edited form as: Public Health Nutr. 2006 Feb;9(1):9–18. doi: 10.1079/phn2005762

Table 1.

Comparison of the body mass index (BMI) distribution of 580 women and 587 men aged 16 to 30 years who took part in the Pune Maternal Nutrition Study

Women
 Men
BMI (kgm−2) n % n %
≤15.99 66 11.2 16 2.7
16.00–16.99 111 20.1 64 10.9
17.00–18.49 200 34.1 151 25.7
18.50–24.99 202 34.4 335 57.1
≥25.00 1 0.2 21 3.6
Total 580 100.0 587 100.0