Table 1.

Descriptive characteristics of children aged 6 to 18 years (n=1265)

Characteristics	Boys			Girls
	Underweight	Normal weight	Overweight	Underweight	Normal weight	Overweight
	(n=89, 13.3%)	(n=470, 70.1%)	(n=111, 16.6%)	(n=90, 15.1%)	(n=440, 73.9%)	(n=65, 10.9%)
Age (y)	11.8 (3.4)	12.1 (3.3)	10.8†(3.3)	11.7 (3.1)	12.2*(3.3)	10.2†(2.8)
Weight (kg)	29.5 (10.6)	39.0*(14.3)	51.7*†(26.2)	28.1 (8.9)	37.7*(11.9)	47.8*†(23.9)
Height (cm)	141.2 (19.1)	146.0 (19.0)	139.6†(22.2)	139.2 (16.9)	144.2*(16.5)	130.8*†(20.6)
Rural residence (%)	71.9 (4.8)	66.4*(2.2)	56.8*†(4.7)	80.0 (4.2)	62.0*(2.3)	58.5*†(6.1)
Maternal BMI‡(kg/m2)	20.8 (2.9)	23.7 (8.9)	24.4*(5.6)	21.4 (2.8)	23.2 (4.0)	24.3*†(5.2)
Maternal education‡(% of under high school)	87.8 (12.7)	77.5 (3.4)	77.5 (8.6)	83.3 (1.7)	75.2 (3.3)	70.4 (10.9)

Values are mean/percentage (standard deviations).

^*P≤0.017 versus underweight of same sex;

^†P≤0.017 versus normal weight of same sex;

^‡Sample limited to 863 mothers with data on perception of child weight status.