Table 8 |
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Prevalence of over-nutrition relative to the international growth references among Pakistani primary school children aged five to twelve years (n = 1860) |
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Reference |
Overweight > + 1 SD BMI-for-age z score |
Obesity > + 2 SD BMI-for-age z score |
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n (%) |
P valuea |
n (%) |
P valuea |
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Boys (n = 977) |
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WHO 2007 |
170 (17.4) |
< 0.001 |
86 (8.8) |
< 0.001 |
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USCDC 2000 |
141 (14.4) |
45 (4.6) |
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IOTFb |
74 (7.6) |
< 0.001c |
42 (4.3) |
< 0.001c |
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< 0.001d |
0.453d |
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Girls (n = 883) |
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WHO 2007 |
146 (16.5) |
0.006 |
54 (6.1) |
< 0.001 |
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USCDC 2000 |
135 (15.3) |
30 (3.4) |
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IOTFb |
80 (9.1) |
< 0.001c |
45 (5.1) |
0.422c |
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< 0.001d |
< 0.001d |
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Total (n = 1860) |
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WHO 2007 |
316 (17.0) |
< 0.001 |
140 (7.5) |
< 0.001 |
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USCDC 2000 |
276 (14.8) |
75 (4.0) |
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IOTFb |
154 (8.3) |
< 0.001c |
87 (4.7) |
< 0.001c |
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< 0.001d |
0.017d |
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a P values are for difference between the estimates by the WHO 2007 and USCDC 2000 references obtained by the McNemar test b IOTF estimates are based on cut-offs corresponding to the respective BMI cut-off value at age 18 years and above c compared to the WHO 2007 reference,d compared to the USCDC 2000 reference |
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Mushtaq et al. BMC Pediatrics 2012 12:31 doi:10.1186/1471-2431-12-31 |
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