Nutritional Status among the Urban Meitei Children and Adolescents of Manipur, Northeast India

Table 3

Distribution of mean BMI value among children and adolescents Meitei boys and girls.

Boys						Girls
Age (year)	N	BMI	SD	t-value	Sig. level	N	BMI	SD	t-value	Sig. level
8–12; 13–18	192; 192	15.54; 18.54	1.79; 2.33	14.09	𝑃<0.01	251; 219	15.75; 19.34	2.27; 2.60	15.84	𝑃<0.01

N: no. of subjects and SD: standard deviation.