Overweight and Obesity Coexist with Thinness among Lao’s Urban Area Adolescents

Table 1

The prevalence of thinness, normal weight, overweight, and obesity according to its determinants.

General characteristics	All (n = 300)		Thinness (n = 31)		Normal (n = 199)		Overweight (n = 42)		Obese (n = 28)		-value
	N	%	n	%	n	%	N	%	N	%
Gender											0.821^a
Boy	150	50.0	17	11.3	96	64.0	23	15.3	14	9.3
Girl	150	50.0	14	9.3	103	68.7	19	12.7	14	9.3
Age (years)											0.473^b
15	27	9.0	3	11.1	18	66.7	5	18.5	1	3.7
16	65	21.7	3	4.6	49	75.4	8	12.3	5	7.7
17	124	41.3	13	10.5	82	66.1	18	14.5	11	8.9
18	70	23.3	10	14.3	44	62.9	8	14.4	8	14.4
19	14	4.7	2	14.3	6	42.9	3	21.4	3	21.4
Grade											0.054^a
Grade 5	100	33.3	9	9.0	75	75.0	10	10.0	6	6.0
Grade 6	100	33.3	9	8.0	66	66.0	19	19.0	7	7.0
Grade 7	100	33.3	9	14.0	58	58.0	13	13.0	15	15.0
Birth order											0.941^a
1^st birth	138	46.0	14	10.1	90	65.2	21	15.2	13	9.4
2^nd birth	100	33.3	9	9.0	67	67.0	13	13.0	11	11.0
>2^nd birth	62	20.7	8	12.9	42	67.7	8	12.9	4	6.5
Number of siblings											0.429^a
1-2	166	55.3	16	9.6	108	65.1	28	16.9	14	8.4
>2	134	44.7	15	11.2	91	67.9	14	10.4	14	10.4
Household members											0.111^a
2–4	135	45.0	17	12.6	85	63.0	24	17.8	9	6.7
>4	165	55.0	14	8.5	114	69.1	18	10.9	19	11.5
Daily allowance (kip) (1$ = 8,00 kip)											0.881^a
5,000–10,000	88	29.3	11	12.5	60	68.2	9	10.2	8	9.1
10,001–20,000	145	48.3	13	9.0	94	64.8	24	16.6	14	9.7
>20,000	67	22.3	7	10.4	45	67.2	9	13.4	6	9.0
History of chronic diseases											0.390^b
No	278	92.7	23	9.7	184	66.2	41	14.7	26	9.4
Yes	22	7.3	4	18.2	15	68.2	1	4.5	2	9.1
Taking supplements											0.412^a
No	221	73.7	24	10.9	142	64.3	31	14.0	24	10.9
Yes	79	26.3	7	8.9	57	72.2	11	13.9	4	5.1
Living arrangement											0.316^b
Parents	230	76.7	27	10.5	164	63.8	36	15.7	24	10.4
Single parental	27	9.0	4	14.8	17	63.0	4	14.8	2	7.4
Nonparental guardians	43	14.3	4	9.3	35	81.4	2	4.7	2	4.7
Mother’s education (n = 250)											0.098^a
Below college level	164	65.6	21	12.8	99	60.4	24	14.6	20	12.2
College/university	86	34.4	5	5.8	60	69.8	16	18.6	5	5.8
Father’s education (n-237)											0.175^a
Below college level	106	44.7	10	9.4	67	63.2	13	12.3	16	15.1
College/university	131	55.3	14	10.7	85	64.9	23	17.6	9	6.9
Guardian’s education (n = 43)											0.253^b
Below college level	16	37.2	3	18.8	13	81.3	0	0.0	0	0.0
College/university	27	62.8	1	3.7	22	81.5	2	7.4	2	7.4
Mother’s occupation (n = 250)											0.800^a
Government	47	18.8	4	8.5	28	59.6	11	23.4	4	8.5
Nongovernment	104	41.6	10	9.6	67	64.4	15	14.4	12	11.5
Unemployed	99	39.6	12	12.1	64	64.6	14	14.1	9	9.1
Father’s occupation (n = 237)											0.805^b
Government	94	39.7	10	10.6	67	71.3	11	11.7	6	6.4
Nongovernment	138	58.2	15	10.9	88	63.8	20	14.5	15	10.9
Unemployed	5	2.1	0	0.0	3	60.0	1	20..0	1	20.0
Guardian’s occupation (n = 43)											0.117^b
Government	18	41.8	0	0.0	16	88.9	1	5.6	1	5.6
Nongovernment	22	51.2	4	18.2	17	77.3	0	0.0	1	4.5
Unemployed	3	7.0	0	0.0	2	66.7	1	33.3	0	0.0
School type											0.115^a
Government	180	60.0	24	13.3	111	61.7	27	15.0	18	10.0
Private	120	40.0	7	5.8	15	12.5	10	8.3	88	73.3
Nutrition knowledge											0.770^a
Fair	66	22.0	9	13.6	43	65.2	8	12.1	6	9.1
Good	234	78.0	22	9.4	156	66.7	34	14.5	22	9.4
Nutrition attitude											0.285^a
Poor	62	20.7	10	16.1	39	62.9	5	8.1	8	12.9
Fair	219	73.0	19	8.7	148	67.6	35	16.0	17	7.8
Good	19	6.3	2	10.5	12	63.2	2	10.5	3	15.8
Eating habit											0.081^a
Poor	201	67.0	17	8.5	129	64.2	22	10.9	33	16.4
Fair	99	33.0	14	14.1	70	7.7	9	9.1	6	6.1
Physical activity											<0.001^a
Low	188	62.7	13	6.9	108	57.4	40	21.3	27	14.4
Moderate	73	24.3	16	21.9	56	76.7	1	1.4	0	0.0
High	39	13.0	2	5.1	35	89.7	1	2.6	1	2.6

^a value by Pearson chi-squared test; ^b value by Fisher exact test; value is significant at <0.05.