Table 1 Background characteristics of study participants by categories of BMI, WC and WHtR (N = 367)
Variable | BMI Categories | WC Categories | WHtR Categories | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Normal | Overweight | Obese | P | Normal | Overweight | Obese | P | Normal | Obese | P | |
n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |||||||||
Participants gender | |||||||||||
 Boys | 176(57.5) | 6(16.2) | 9(37.5) |  | 179(54.6) | 7(25.9) | 5(41.7) |  | 179(57.2) | 12(22.2) |  |
 Girls | 130(42.5) | 31(83.8) | 15(62.5) | 0.001* | 149(45.4) | 20(74.1) | 7(58.3) | 0.013* | 134(42.8) | 42(77.8) | 0.001* |
Adolescence age group | |||||||||||
 Early | 68(22.2) | 9(24.3) | 12(50.0) |  | 70(21.3) | 12(44.5) | 7(58.3) |  | 70(22.4) | 19(35.2) |  |
 Middle | 154(50.3) | 16(43.2) | 10(41.7) |  | 165(50.3) | 11(40.7) | 4(33.3) |  | 159(50.8) | 21(38.9) |  |
 Late | 84(27.5) | 12(32.4) | 2(8.3) | 0.024* | 93(28.4) | 4(14.8) | 1(8.4) | 0.003* | 84(26.8) | 14(25.9) | 0.107 |
Parental socioeconomic statusa | |||||||||||
 Low | 96(31.4) | 5(13.5) | 5(20.8) |  | 97(29.6) | 7(25.9) | 2(16.6) |  | 97(31.0) | 9(16.7) |  |
 Medium | 131(42.8) | 14(37.8) | 7(29.2) |  | 144(43.9) | 5(18.6) | 3(25.0) |  | 134(42.8) | 18(33.3) |  |
 High | 79(25.9) | 18(48.6) | 12(50.0) | 0.001* | 87(26.5) | 15(55.5) | 7(58.4) | 0.001* | 82(26.2) | 27(50.0) | 0.009* |
School type | |||||||||||
 Public | 173(56.5) | 15(40.5) | 5(20.8) |  | 183(55.8) | 8(29.6) | 2(16.7) |  | 174(55.6) | 19(35.2) |  |
 Private | 133(43.5) | 22(59.5) | 19(79.2) | 0.001* | 145(44.2) | 19(70.4) | 10(83.3) | 0.001* | 139(44.4) | 35(64.8) | 0.010* |