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

Table 5

Prevalence (%) of overweight and obesity in the study population according to different references.

References	Boys (𝑛=1285)		Girls (𝑛=1404)		Boys + girls (𝑛=2689)		Chi-squared test
	Overweight†	obese	Overweight†	obese	Overweight†	obese	𝑃 value
Method 1
Database lms	6.4	2.2	17.2	3.8	12.0	3.0	—
IOTF [8]	7.0	1.4	13.8	2.4	10.5	1.9	<0.001
Method 2
Database 85th	6.6	7.0	7.9	8.2	7.3	7.6	—
WHO 2007 [21]	8.2	5.5	12.9	8.6	10.7	7.2	<0.001
Must et al. [18]	6.4	2.4	10.7	3.7	8.6	3.1	<0.001
CDC [19, 20]	6.4	3.0	12.4	4.1	9.5	3.6	<0.001
Method 3
Database 97th∗	5.7	—	6.2	—	5.9	—	—
French 97th∗ [11]	6.8	—	14.7	—	10.9	—	<0.001

†Overweight excluding obesity, ∗overweight including obesity, International Obesity Task force (IOTF), World Health Organization (WHO), and Center of disease Control (CDC), difference between database and corresponding references was calculated by Chi-squared test, and 𝑃<0.05 was set at significant.