Table 2.
Prevalence (%) of thinness (under 5th centile), and fatness (above 95th centile) by sex and puberty stages.
| Underweight | Obesity | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-pubertal | Pubertal | Post-pubertal | Pre-pubertal | Pubertal | Post-puberta | |||||||
| boys | girls | boys | girls | boys | girls | boys | girls | boys | girls | boys | girls | |
| BMI | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 3.5 | 6.3 | 5.8 | 5.8 | 7.0 | 5.0 | 6.8 | 4.9 |
| WH | 4.9 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.6 | 5.4 | 5.2 | 5.5 | 5.8 | 5.8 | 5.2 |
| MUAC | 5.8 | 4.3 | 6.0 | 5.4 | 3.8 | 5.2 | 6.1 | 5.2 | 5.0 | 4.2 | 5.5 | 3.5 |
| TST | 5.5* | 3.4 | 6.5 | 5.8 | 4.8 | 3.8 | 5.1* | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 6.3 |
*
Significant difference between boys and girls at 5% level; BMI: Body mass index; WH: weight-for-height; MUAC: mid-upper arm circumference-for-age; TST: triceps skinfold thickness-for-age