Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity, and Thinness in Cameroon Urban Children and Adolescents
Table 1
(a) Descriptive statistics for height, weight, and body mass index (BMI) of boys in our study population. (b) Descriptive statistics for height, weight, and body mass index (BMI) of girls in our study population.
(a)
Age (years)
Height (cm)
127.3 (0.64)
132.6 (0.76)
136.9 (0.75)
142.1 (0.62)
148.2 (0.63)
153.1 (0.69)
158.3 (0.67)
163.7 (0.76)
Weight (kg)
25.7 (0.38)
29.1 (0.59)
31.6 (0.63)
36.0 (0.50)
40.3 (0.53)
44.5 (0.65)
47.7 (0.56)
53.1 (0.82)
BMI (kg/m²)
15.8 (0.20)
16.3 (0.20)
16.7 (0.21)
17.7 (0.17)
18.2 (0.17)
18.8 (0.21)
18.9 (0.17)
19.7 (0.20)
: number, BMI: body mass index, and values are given as mean (standard error of the mean).
(b)
Age (years)
Height (cm)
128.6 (0.64)
132.3 (0.59)
138.1 (0.67)
146.7 (0.62)
152.7 (0.54)
156.4 (0.42)
159.3 (0.45)
160.3 (0.46)
Weight (kg)
27.4 (0.58)
28.5 (0.51)
32.9 (0.57)
40.2 (0.68)
45.1 (0.58)
49.3 (0.62)
52.6 (0.67)
55.6 (0.71)
BMI (kg/m²)
16.4 (0.23)
16.1 (0.20)
17.1 (0.18)
18.5 (0.24)
19.2 (0.20)
20.1 (0.22)
20.6 (0.23)
21.6 (0.24)
: number, BMI: body mass index, and values are given as mean (standard error of the mean).
