The Dual Burden of Malnutrition and Associated Dietary and Lifestyle Habits among Lebanese School Age Children Living in Orphanages in North Lebanon

Table 2

Anthropometric assessment.

IV. Anthropometric data	Age group			Test of significance
	Total ()	<10 ()	≥10 ()
	Number (%)	Number (%)	Number (%)
Height for age WHO
Stunted (≤−2SD)	21 (13.7)	9 (11.3)	12 (16.4)	0.868	0.352
Normal	132 (86.3)	71 (88.8)	61 (83.6)
BMI for age WHO z scores
Normal	139 (90.8)	74 (92.5)	65 (89.0)	2.314	= 0.311
Overweight (≥+2SD)	11 (7.2)	4 (5.0)	7 (9.6)
Obese (≥+3SD)	3 (2.0)	2 (2.5)	1 (1.4)

MC: Monte Carlo for chi-square test.