Research Article
Prevalence and Predictors of Obesity among 7- to 17-Year-Old Schoolchildren in Urban Arusha, Tanzania
Table 2
Overall and child sex mean anthropometric measurements of the study participants.
| Variables | Overall (n = 451) | Child sex | Girls (n = 260) | Boys (n = 191) | Mean ± SD | Mean ± SD | Mean ± SD |
| Age (years) | 12.5 ± 1.4 | 12.4 ± 1.3 | 12.7 ± 1.4 | Weight (kg) | 38.1 ± 8.4 | 38.6 ± 8.5 | 37.4 ± 8.3 | Height (cm) | 141.3 ± 18.3 | 140.1 ± 19.9 | 142.9 ± 15.7 | Waist circumference (cm) | 28.4 ± 14.7 | 27.7 ± 3.0 | 29.5 ± 22.2 | Hip circumference (cm) | 32.5 ± 3.4 | 33.1 ± 3.4 | 31.7 ± 3.2 | Waist-hip ratio | 0.9 ± 0.4 | 0.8 ± 0.1 | 0.9 ± 0.6 | BMI (kg/m2) | 20.4 ± 9.9 | 21.5 ± 11.6 | 18.9 ± 6.7 |
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