Overweight or Obesity, Gender, and Age Influence on High School Students of the City of Toluca’s Physical Fitness

Table 1

Body weight status distribution based on the BMI category according to age and gender in the sample .

Age	Weight status	Gender				Total
		Men		Women
			Weight status%		Weight status%		Weight status%
15	Normal	15	71.4%	24	80%	39	76.4%
	Low weight	1	4.7%	1	3.3%	2	3.9%
	Overweight	5	23.8%	4	13.3%	9	17.6%
	Obesity	0	0%	1	3.3%	1	1.9%
16	Normal	20	76.9%	24	68.5%	44	72.1%
	Low weight	3	11.5%	3	8.5%	6	9.8%
	Overweight	1	3.8%	5	14.2%	6	9.8%
	Obesity	2	7.6%	3	8.5%	5	8.1%
17	Normal	14	87.5%	15	68.1%	29	76.3%
	Low weight	2	12.5%	2	9.0%	4	10.5%
	Overweight	0	0%	3	13.6%	3	7.8%
	Obesity	0	0%	2	9.0%	2	5.2%

76.4% the normal weight category were 15 years old. Group of 16-year-olds is the one where most of the women (14.2%) suffer from overweight and in group of 17-year-olds 9% suffer obesity. There are no overweight and obesity men in the group of those who are 17 years old.