Prevalence of obesity and associated risk factors in chinese pre school children aged 6 to 72 months old in singapore 3

CHAPTER 3 3. RESULTS 3.1 Characteristics of the study population Table 3 shows the anthropometric and demographic characteristics of the participants. Boys were heavier, taller and had higher BMI than girls. Fathers who had university (and above) education constituted 33.0% and the percentage of mothers with university education (and above) was 28.0%. About half of the families (45.2%) had total combined monthly income of ≥S$ 5,000. Table 4 shows birth weight and behavioral characteristics of the participants. The mean time spent in total on sedentary activities was about five times greater than that of total outdoors activities [3.4±2.5(SD) vs. 0.7±0.9(SD) hours per day, p=[...]... (5.8-10.2) 26 4 .3 (2.7 -6. 0) 30 5.0 (3. 3 -6. 7) 60 10.4 (7.9-12.9) 35 6. 1 (4.1-8.1) 28 4.9 (3. 1 -6. 6) ... (degree and above) 199 (6. 8) 1 032 (35 .4) 869 (29.8) 1 06( 7.0) 5 43( 35 .6) 4 56( 29.9) 93 (6. 7) 489 (35 .1) 4 13( 29 .6) 818(28.0) 419(27.5) 39 9(28 .6) 73( 2.5) 62 2(21 .6) 887 (30 .7) 130 3(45.2) 39 (2 .6) 31 1(20.7) 480 (31 .9)... 509 33 6. 5 (4 .3- 8 .6) 32 6. 3 (4.2-8.4) 42 8 .3 (5.9-10.7) 10 36 . 0-47.9 571 46 8.1 (5.8-10 .3) 43 7.5 (5.4-9.7) 51 8.9 (6. 6-11 .3) 48.0-59.9 60 1 46 7.7 (5.5-9.8) 39 6. 5 (4.5-8.5) 35 5.8 (4.0-7.7) 60 .0 -72. .. applied to age groups 24 months and above 83 Table Frequency distribution and prevalence of overweight and obesity in Singapore Chinese Preschool children aged to 72 months by gender and age