Nutritional status and Cardiometabolic health among adolescents; findings from southwestern Nigeria

BMC Nutrition

Table 6 Relationship between nutritional status and cardiometabolic indicators

Nutritional status (BMI)	N	Blood pressure		WHtR		WHR		^bRBS
Nutritional status (BMI)	N	Normal	Elevated	Low	High	Normal	Ab-normal	Normal	Elevated
Underweight	38	76.3	23.7	100.0	0.0	81.6	18.4	94.1	5.9
Normal	243	70.8	29.2	97.1	2.9	77.4	22.6	96.3	3.7
Overweight/ Obese	32	28.1	71.9	50.0	50.0	68.8	31.2	100.0	0.0
Total	313	67.1	32.9	92.7	7.3	77.0	23.0	96.6	3.4
p-value		^c < 0.001^a		^d < 0.001^a		^c0.428		^d0.351

WHR – waist-hip ratio; WHtR – waist-to-height ratio; BMI – body mass index; RBS – random blood sugar
^a statistically significant; ^b only 179 (57.2%) of the respondents consented to the test; ^c Chi-square-test used; ^d Fisher’s exact test used

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