The height-, weight- and BMI-for-age of preschool children from Nizhny Novgorod city, Russia, relative to the international growth references

Nazarova, Ekaterina; Kuzmichev, Yury

doi:10.1186/s12889-016-2946-8

Table 2 Stunting prevalence and BMI distribution among Russian preschool children using the three reference

From: The height-, weight- and BMI-for-age of preschool children from Nizhny Novgorod city, Russia, relative to the international growth references

	N	WHO n %	USCDC n %	95%CI WHO		95%CI USCDC
Stunting (height-for-age z-score < −2)
boys aged 3–4 years	643	28	21
boys aged 3–4 years	643	4.35	3.27	2.91	6.23	2.03	4.95
girls aged 3–4 years	599	17	11
girls aged 3–4 years	599	2.84	1.84	1.66	4.51	0.92	3.26
boys aged 5–7 years	982	14	13
boys aged 5–7 years	982	1.43	1.32	0.78	2.38	0.71	2.25
girls aged 5–7 years	906	16	15
girls aged 5–7 years	906	1.77	1.66	1.01	2.85	0.93	2.72
Thinness (BMI z-score < −2)
boys aged 3–4 years	643	13	42
boys aged 3–4 years	643	2.02	6.53	1.08	3.43	4.75	8.73
girls aged 3–4 years	599	12	35
girls aged 3–4 years	599	‘2.02	5.84	1.04	3.47	4.10	8.03
boys aged 5–7 years	982	34	76
boys aged 5–7 years	982	3.46	7,74	2.41	4.80	6.15	9.59
girls aged 5–7 years	906	24	50
girls aged 5–7 years	906	2,65	5.52	1.70	3.92	4.12	7.21
Normal weight (−2 ≤ BMI z-score ≤ 1)
boys aged 3–4 years	643	516	504
boys aged 3–4 years	643	80.25	78.38	76.93	83.26	75.00	81.51
girls aged 3–4 years	599	478	461
girls aged 3–4 years	599	79.8	76.96	76.36	82.94	73.38	80.28
boys aged 5–7 years	982	781	739
boys aged 5–7 years	982	79.35	’79.25	76.87	82.01	72.43	77.93
girls aged 5–7 years	906	740	704
girls aged 5–7 years	906	81.68	77.70	79.0	84.15	74.85	80.38
Overweight (1 < BMI z-score ≤ 2)
boys aged 3–4 years	643	84	74
boys aged 3–4 years	643	13.06	11.51	10.56	15.92	9.15	14.23
girls aged 3–4 years	599	88	85
girls aged 3–4 years	599	14.69	14.19	11.95	17.78	11.49	17.24
boys aged 5–7 years	982	124	134
boys aged 5–7 years	982	12.63	13.65	10.61	14.87	11.56	15.95
girls aged 5–7 years	906	110	130
girls aged 5–7 years	906	12.14	14.35	10.09	14.45	12.13	16.80
Obesity (BMI z-score > 2)
boys aged 3–4 years	643	30	23
boys aged 3–4 years	643	4.67	3.58	3.17	6.59	2.28	5.32
girls aged 3–4 years	599	21	18
girls aged 3–4 years	599	3.51	3.01	2.18	5.31	1.79	4.71
boys aged 5–7 years	982	46	33
boys aged 5–7 years	982	4.38	3.36	3.45	6.20	2.32	4.69
girls aged 5–7 years	906	32	22
girls aged 5–7 years	906	3.53	2.43	2.43	4.95	1.53	3.65

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