Research Article

Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity, and Thinness in Cameroon Urban Children and Adolescents

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Comparison of age- and gender-specific body mass index (BMI) cut-off curves of our Database population of 8 to 15 years old presented relative to different published reference groups: International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) cutoffs for overweight and obesity matching, respectively, BMI of 25 and 30 kg/m2 at 18 years old (a and b), World Health Organization (WHO) 2007 85th and 95th percentiles (c and d), Must et al. or “old United States” 85th and 95th percentiles (e and f), Center of Disease Control (CDC) or “new United States” 85th and 95th percentiles (g and h), and Europe-French 97th percentile for overweight including obesity (i and j). In all panels, corresponding cutoffs derived from our Database are presented as solid lines presented beside reference cutoffs with dotted lines.
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