Association of Anthropometric Indices with Menstrual Abnormality among Nursing Students of Nepal: A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 1

Demographic and anthropometric characteristics of study participants (N = 240).

S. no.	Demographic and anthropometric characteristics		Frequency	Proportion (%)
1	Age group (mean ± SD = 19.2 ± 2.5), range (16–24)	<20 years	79	32.92
		≥20 years	161	67.08
2	Age of menarche (mean ± SD = 13.3 ± 1.5), range (7–19)	≤10 years	41	17.08
		11–14 years	155	64.58
		≥15 years	44	18.34
3	BMI (mean ± SD = 20.9 ± 3.1), range (14.5–32.46)	Normal	141	58.75
		Underweight	52	21.67
		Over weight	35	14.58
		Obese	12	5.00
4	Waist-hip ratio (WHR) (mean ± SD = 0.9 ± 0.3), range (0.65–1.24)	Normal (≤0.8)	133	55.41
		High (>0.8)	107	44.59
5	Weight-height ratio (WHtR) (mean ± SD = 0.5 ± 0.3), range (0.28–0.63)	Normal (≤0.5)	155	64.58
		High (>0.5)	85	35.42