Table 4.
Distribution of children residing with normal/underweight and overweight/obese adult caregivers.
| Adult caregivers' BMI category | Categories of malnutrition in children |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| <-2 SD stunted |
<-2 SD underweight |
<-2 SD wasted |
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| Rural n=19 |
Urban n=39 |
Rural n=15 |
Urban n=15 |
Rural n=6 |
Urban n=8 |
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| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |
| Underweight and normal weight (BMI <25 kg/m2) | 7 (36.8) | 11 (28.2) | 5 (33.3) | 5 (33.3) | 0 (0) | 2 (25.0) |
| Overweight and obese (BMI ≥25 kg/m2) | 12 (63.2) | 28 (71.8) | 10 (66.7) | 10 (67.7) | 6 (100) | 6 (75.0) |