Diet, Physical Activity, and Obesity in School-Aged Indigenous Youths in Northern Australia

Table 1

Characteristics of whole study population.

	Primary schools (𝑛=163) 𝑛 (%)	High school (𝑛=114) 𝑛 (%)	Total (𝑛=277) 𝑛 (%)	𝑃 value
Sex
Male	68 (42)	60 (53)	128 (46)	0.073
Female	95 (58)	54 (47)	149 (54)
BMI^a
Normal	90 (55)	60 (53)	150 (54)	0.871
Overweight	44 (27)	34 (30)	78 (28)
Obese	29 (18)	20 (18)	49 (18)
Increased waist circumference^b	46 (28)	51 (45)	97 (35)	0.004

^aBody mass index (BMI) = weight (kg)/height (m)²; Cole et al.’s [28] childhood-equivalent cut-points to an adult BMI of 25 and 30 were used to categorise BMI;
^bMissing information for 1 youth; age and sex-specific cut-points as described by Jolliffe and Janssen [29] were used to classify central obesity (large waist circumference).