Lifestyle Risk Factors of General and Abdominal Obesity in Students of the School of Medicine and Health Science
of the University of Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana
Table 2
BMI status and abdominal obesity stratified by age.
Variable
18–24 ()
25–31 ()
32–38 ()
Chi-square
P value
BMI status
Underweight
28 (5.5%)
4 (3.2%)
0 (0.0%)
1.67
0.1965
Normal weight
422 (82.7%)
113 (89.7%)
7 (70.0%)
1.13
0.2879
Overweight
51 (10.0%)
6 (4.8%)
3 (30.0%)
0.22
0.6411
Obesity
9 (1.8%)
3 (2.4%)
0 (0.0%)
0.03
0.8533
Abdominal obesity
Yes
18 (3.5%)
6 (4.8%)
0 (0.0%)
0.07
0.7918
No
492 (96.5%)
120 (95.2%)
10 (100.0%)
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Data was presented as proportion and analyzed using Chi-square for trend.