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/m^2)	20.4 ± 9.9	21.5 ± 11.6	18.9 ± 6.7