Discriminative ability of adiposity measures for elevated blood pressure among adolescents in a resource-constrained setting in northeast Nigeria: a cross-sectional analysis

Table 2 Distribution of adiposity measures and blood pressures of study participants (N = 367)

Variable	Boys	Girls	p-value	Total
Variable	N = 191	N = 176	p-value	N = 367	p-value
Weight (kg)
Early adolescence	41.8 (14.1)	48.0 (12.1)	0.030	44.8 (13.5)
Middle adolescence	46.9 (10.8)	52.4 (11.5)	0.001	49.6 (11.5)
Late Adolescence	54.3 (8.9)	53.9 (12.1)	0.860	54.1 (10.4)	0.001*
Body Mass index
Early adolescence	18.7 (4.9)	20.6 (4.4)	0.053	19.6 (4.7)
Middle adolescence	18.27 (2.8)	21.2 (4.6)	0.001	19.7 (4.1)
Late Adolescence	19.4 (4.7)	21.4 (4.1)	0.005	20.3 (3.7)	0.393*
Waist circumference (cm)
Early adolescence	66.2 (12.8)	72.1 (9.8)	0.018	69.1 (11.8)
Middle adolescence	65.3 (7.1)	70.9 (9.8)	0.001	68.1 (8.9)
Late Adolescence	69.3 (6.5)	70.0 (10.7)	0.713	69.6 (8.6)	0.415*
Waist-to-height ratio
Early adolescence	0.44 (0.07)	0.47 (0.06)	0.046	0.46 (0.07)
Middle adolescence	0.41 (0.03)	0.45 (0.06)	0.001	0.43 (0.05)
Late Adolescence	0.41 (0.04)	0.44 (0.06)	0.009	0.42 (0.05)	0.001*
Blood pressure categories n (%)
Prehypertensive	19 (9.1)	20 (11.4)	0.787**	39 (10.6)
Hypertensive	8 (4.2)	13 (7.4)	0.274**	21 (5.7)

Values presented as mean (SD), unless otherwise indicated, n (%) = Frequency (percentage), *ANOVA p-values reported, **Chi-square p-values reported. Early adolescence (10–13 years), Middle adolescence (14–16 years), Late adolescence (17–18 years) as described by Cromber et al. [47]

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