Relationship between breakfast consumption, BMI status and physical fitness of Ghanaian school-aged children

BMC Nutrition

Table 6 Breakfast consumption by BMI-for age status, gender and age

			Thin	Normal	Overweight/obesity		Chi square	P value
Breakfast consumption	Yes	Count	7	236	33	276	0.359	0.549
		%	77.80%	78.40%	82.50%	78.90%
	No	Count	2	65	7	74
		%	22.20%	21.60%	17.50%	21.10%
			Male	Female			0.366	0.601
	Yes	Count	134	142
		%	80.20%	77.60%
	No	Count	33	41
		%	19.80%	22.40%

N = 350. Breakfast consumption did not vary between different ages, not presented. Thin and normal children were combined for chi-square analysis between BMI status and breakfast consumption, since some cells were fewer than 5

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