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Table 1 Urban versus rural setting: baseline characteristics

From: Overweight and obesity and their associated factors among early adolescence school children in urban and rural Portugal

Parameter

Urban (n = 57)

Rural (n = 72)

Total (n = 129)

p

Female

42 (73.7%)

33 (45.8%)

75 (58.1%)

0.001

Age (years)

10

14 (24.6%)

34 (47.2%)

48 (37.2%)

0.002

11

11 (19.3%)

19 (26.4%)

30 (23.3%)

12

32 (56.1%)

19 (26.4%)

51 (39.5%)

Year (School)

4

1 (1.8%)

12 (16.7%)

13 (10.1%)

0.036

5

19 (33.3%)

22 (30.6%)

41 (31.8%)

6

18 (31.6%)

20 (27.8%)

38 (29.5%)

7

19 (33.3%)

16 (22.2%)

35 (27.1%)

8

0 (0.0%)

2 (2.8%)

2 (1.6%)