Research Article
Anthropometric Characteristics of Underprivileged Adolescents: A Study from Urban Slums of India
Table 1
Means, standard deviation (SD), and percentiles of height, weight, and BMI for adolescents (combining 10–18 years) by sex.
| | | Boys ( = 257) | Girls ( = 261) | | Mean (SD) | Percentiles | Mean (SD) | Percentiles | | 10 | 25 | 50 | 75 | 90 | 10 | 25 | 50 | 75 | 90 |
| | Age (years) | 14 (2.5) | 10 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 17 | 14 (2.3) | 11 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 17 | | Height (cm) | 150 (14) | 131 | 139 | 149 | 162 | 169 | 147 (10) | 131 | 140 | 148 | 155 | 158 | | Weight (kg) | 37 (11) | 23 | 29 | 36 | 45 | 50 | 37 (9) | 25 | 30 | 38 | 43 | 48 | | BMI (kg/m2) | 16 (2) | 13 | 15 | 16 | 18 | 19 | 17 (3) | 14 | 15 | 17 | 19 | 21 |
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