Table 3.

Prevalence of overweight and obesity among girls of six ethnic groups

Age(year)	Ethnicitis
	Fars		Kurd		Lor		Baluch		Turk		Arab
	IRN*	IOTF*	IRN	IOTF	IRN	IOTF	IRN	IOTF	IRN	IOTF	IRN	IOTF
7 (OW** )	13.2	2.9	9.5	5	18.9	8	6.4	2.8	12.4	7.1	15.7	7.8
7 (Ob**)	4.4	2.5	5.5	2.5	7.1	2.8	2.8	.4	7.1	2.1	9.3	4.4
8 (OW )	10.8	7.4	13.4	10.1	18.7	13.9	5	1.9	12.9	4.9	16.3	10.4
8 (Ob)	7.8	2	8.4	.6	13.4	1.9	2.3	.8	4.9	1.2	17.3	9.9
9 (OW )	15.1	10.7	14.2	9.6	13.3	11.8	9.7	3.1	20.3	12.1	19.9	17.5
9 (Ob)	9.8	2.4	8.8	1.3	12.8	3.6	2.6	.4	12.9	4.7	20.4	7.3
10 (OW )	15.7	12.2	17.2	11.6	15.1	12.5	5.7	3.9	15.2	14.3	16.6	12.2
10(Ob)	10.7	2.5	12.6	2.5	14.1	4.7	3.9	.4	15.7	3	15.6	4.4
11 (ow )	14.9	15.3	15.3	12.6	14.9	12.3	9	5.4	15.6	15.1	20.3	19.3
11(Ob)	15.3	3.3	12.1	4.2	11.3	3.1	4.5	.9	13.2	2.4	18.9	4.7
12 (OW )	16.9	17.5	17	14.2	17.2	11.6	7.7	6	16.1	12.9	19.7	19.7
12(Ob)	16.9	5.4	15.3	4	11.9	2.6	6.9	1.7	11.3	1.6	23.5	6.1
13 (OW )	19.9	21.4	16.7	16.2	15.7	18.2	8.7	6	16.6	13.3	18.4	17
13(Ob)	17.4	6.5	16.2	4.9	15.3	3.8	3.2	4	10.4	3.8	17	7.5
14 (OW )	19.1	19.5	15.5	15.9	19.5	20.5	9.6	8.2	16.8	14.4	20	20.7
14(Ob)	14.2	4.1	7.1	3.5	10	3.5	1.4	.5	5.8	1.4	12.4	4
15 (OW )	16.2	23.2	14.3	18.8	15.8	22.1	9.3	9.7	12.6	14.1	16.9	21.5
15(Ob)	18.7	9.6	8.5	2.7	8.4	.5	2.4	1.2	4.5	2	6.2	0
16 (OW )	13.2	17.6	9.8	13	12.1	16.5	4.3	5.5	11.5	16.4	14.3	20.1
16(Ob)	7	4.8	6.5	5.4	3.4	1.9	1.6	1.6	6.6	4.9	6.1	4.1
17 (OW )	11.8	14.9	8.2	13.1	11.4	16.9	6.1	8.2	7.4	10.4	14.9	19.6
17(Ob)	3.6	3.1	4.1	3.3	3.9	3.9	1.6	1.6	2.6	2.2	3.1	3.1
18 (OW )	10.2	13.2	5.8	10.3	6.5	7.8	5.1	5.6	3.8	7	17.4	16.7
18(Ob)	3.4	2.6	4.7	3.8	.9	0	1	1.2	1	1.3	8.7	11.1

^*IRN: Iranian definition from Hosseini et al [29], IOTF: International obesity task force values from Cole et al [28]