Table 4.
Prevalence of overweight and obese children (individual analysis). Values are numbers (percentages)
|
Body mass index
|
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|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | International Obesity Task Force cut off points15 | 1990 British centile charts14 | British waist circumference centile charts12 |
| Overweight boys | |||
| Baseline: | |||
| Control | 33 (18.8) | 28 (19.6) | 28 (20.3) |
| Intervention | 34 (20.1) | 32 (19.2) | 34 (21.5) |
| Follow up: | |||
| Control | 39 (22.2) | 33 (25.6) | 33 (25.0) |
| Intervention | 31 (18.3) | 31 (19.9) | 35 (22.6) |
| Overweight girls | |||
| Baseline: | |||
| Control | 46 (28.0) | 32 (20.1) | 38 (24.4) |
| Intervention | 43 (27.6) | 29 (19.2) | 33 (22.1) |
| Follow up: | |||
| Control | 50 (29.6) | 37 (28.3) | 52 (36.9) |
| Intervention | 39 (23.1) | 29 (20.9) | 40 (29.6) |
| Obese boys | |||
| Baseline: | |||
| Control | 3 (1.7) | 10 (7.0) | 14 (9.9) |
| Intervention | 7 (4.1) | 11 (6.9) | 15 (9.5) |
| Follow up: | |||
| Control | 3 (1.7) | 12 (9.0) | 14 (10.4) |
| Intervention | 6 (3.5) | 11 (7.1) | 13 (8.4) |
| Obese girls | |||
| Baseline: | |||
| Control | 12 (7.3) | 12 (7.5) | 17 (10.7) |
| Intervention | 9 (5.7) | 10 (6.6) | 15 (9.9) |
| Follow up: | |||
| Control | 11 (6.3) | 13 (9.0) | 27 (19.0) |
| Intervention | 8 (4.7) | 9 (6.5) | 16 (11.5) |