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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Matern Child Health J. 2014 Sep;18(7):1619–1627. doi: 10.1007/s10995-013-1402-y

Table 3.

Distribution of gender, weight-for-age, stunting and BMI groups by age category

Variable All Age Groups
8–10 11–13
n = 302 n = 158 n = 144 P
value
Gender n(%) 0.05
Boys 144(47.68) 84(58.33) 60(41.67)
Girls 158(52.32) 74(46.84) 84(53.16)
Low Weight for Age n(%) 0.22
No 286(94.7) 152(96.2) 134(93.06)
Yes 16(5.3) 6(3.8) 10(6.94)
Stunted Growth n(%) 0.36
No 211(69.87) 114(72.15) 97(67.36)
Yes 91(30.13) 44(27.85) 47(32.64)
BMI Group n(%) 0.92
Obese/Overweight 74(24.50) 40(25.32) 34(23.61)
Normal 225(74.50) 116(73.42) 109(75.69)
Thinness/Severe Thinness 3(0.99) 2(1.27) 1(0.69)