Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity, and Thinness in Cameroon Urban Children and Adolescents

Table 4

Age- and gender-specific BMI cutoffs for the classification of nutritional status, obtained by using LMS method applied to our Cameroon database.

Age (years)	Thinness III		Thinness II		Thinness I		Overweight		Obesity
	Boys	Girls	Boys	Girls	Boys	Girls	Boys	Girls	Boys	Girls
8	9.9	10.7	11.4	11.5	13.3	12.8	18.6	17.9	21.3	21.6
9	10.3	11.1	11.6	11.9	13.3	13.0	18.9	17.8	22.2	21.3
10	9.9	12.6	11.5	13.3	13.6	14.3	19.5	18.7	22.7	22.3
11	12.3	9.9	13.4	11.4	14.9	13.5	20.5	20.1	24.1	24.0
12	12.6	12.2	13.8	13.2	15.4	14.8	21.4	21.1	25.4	25.6
13	7.5	12.7	11.1	13.8	14.4	15.4	22.2	22.2	25.9	27.2
14	12.5	13.5	14.0	14.6	16.0	16.2	22.2	22.8	25.6	27.6
15	14.6	15.0	15.5	15.9	16.9	17.4	23.2	23.9	28.3	29.1

Thinness III, Thinness II, Thinness I, overweight, and obesity correspond, respectively, to BMI values of 16, 17, 18.5, 25, and 30 kg/m² at 18 years old.