Prevalence and geographic variation of abdominal obesity in 7- and 9-year-old children in Greece; World Health Organization Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative 2010

Table 2 Prevalence of abdominal obesity according to body mass index categories

	International Obesity Task Force definition of obesity			World Health Organization definition of obesity
	Normal weight	Overweight	Obese	Normal weight	Overweight	Obese
Boys 7 years-old	3.4	39.4	88.8	1.6	21.8	73.9
Girls 7 years-old	3.8	38.4	88.6	2.2	30.5	81.7
Boys 9 years-old	6.8	49.1	96.8	2.4	28.0	79.0
Girls 9 years-old	4.2	44.1	90.9	3.3	27.0	87.3

The prevalence of abdominal obesity differs significantly between categories of body mass index in both boys and girls, in both age groups and according to both definitions of obesity (p <0.001 for all comparisons)

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