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Published in final edited form as: Obes Rev. 2014 Jan;15(0 1):37–48. doi: 10.1111/obr.12121

Table 5.

Age-standardized^* overweight prevalence in the megacities, CHNS 2011

	Beijing	Shanghai	Chongqing	Total
	n = 1,190	n = 1,295	n = 1,183	n = 3,668
Adult men^‡	44.0 ± 5.3	34.8 ± 3.1	20.6 ± 2.9	34.3 ± 2.0
Adult women^‡	29.3 ± 2.0	20.7 ± 3.1	29.4 ± 4.3	26.0 ± 1.8
Total adults^‡	34.6 ± 2.4	27.1 ± 2.1	25.0 ± 2.4	29.6 ± 1.3
Boys aged 2–18^§	12.3 ± 3.3	5.4 ± 2.2	9.8 ± 2.9	9.3 ± 1.6
Girls aged 2–18^§	8.5 ± 3.3	5.2 ± 2.1	2.6 ± 1.1	5.1 ± 1.2
Total aged 2–18^§	10.5 ± 2.3	5.2 ± 1.5	6.2 ± 1.5	7.2 ± 1.0

Age standardized to the 1990 Chinese population.

^‡

WHO overweight BMI cut point, BMI ≥ 25 kg/m^{2 46}.

^§

Overweight classified using the IOTF age- and sex-specific BMI ≥ 25 kg/m² equivalent ⁴⁹.