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Table 4 Weight goals according to perceived weight category among female students of Karachi Pakistan

From: Weight patterns and perceptions among female university students of Karachi: a cross sectional study

  

Perceived weight

  
 

Underweight (n=66)

Normal weight (n=168)

Overweight (95)

P-value

Weight goals

    

Trying to gain

22.7% (15)

4.8% (8)

0

p < 0.001

Trying to lose

3.0% (2)

20.2% (34)

47.4% (45)

 

Maintaining

9.1% (6)

27.4% (46)

18.9% (18)

 

Doing nothing

65.2% (43)

47.6% (80)

33.7% (32)

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