title: Leanness among early adolescents in two rural schools of two districts in West Bengal.
abstract: This cross-sectional study was conducted in two districts of West Bengal, to report the prevalence of leanness among rural adolescent school children. Leanness was evaluated using age and sex specific cut-off points of triceps skinfold thickness of < 5th percentile of NCHS reference population as recommended by World Health Organization. A total of 2016 students, of these, 51.39% boys and 48.61% girls aged 10-15 years were studied. Overall (age and sex combined) 18.35% children were lean. Moreover, prevalence of leanness was significantly higher in girls (22.04%) as compared to boys (14.86%).
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bisai
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Bose
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012424:Rural Population; D012737:Sex Factors; D012885:Skinfold Thickness; D013851:Thinness / Q000453:epidemiology*