Central obesity in Yemeni children: A population based cross-sectional study

Table 6 Comparison between waist-to-height ratio 10^th, 50^th and 90^th percentiles for Yemeni, Pakistani (n = 12), and Norwegian (n = 22) boys and girls

Age	10th percentiles			50th percentiles			90th percentiles
	Y	P	N	Y	P	N	Y	P	N
Boys
6	0.4	0.41	0.41	0.47	0.46	0.45	0.55	0.52	0.49
7	0.39	0.4	0.4	0.46	0.45	0.44	0.54	0.52	0.48
8	0.38	0.4	0.39	0.45	0.45	0.43	0.53	0.52	0.48
9	0.38	0.39	0.38	0.45	0.45	0.42	0.53	0.52	0.48
10	0.37	0.39	0.38	0.44	0.44	0.42	0.52	0.52	0.48
11	0.37	0.38	0.37	0.44	0.44	0.42	0.51	0.52	0.48
12	0.36	0.38	0.37	0.43	0.44	0.41	0.51	0.52	0.47
13	0.36	-	0.36	0.43	-	0.41	0.5	-	0.47
14	0.36	-	0.36	0.43	-	0.41	0.5	-	0.46
15	0.36	-	0.37	0.43	-	0.41	0.5	-	0.46
16	0.36	-	0.37	0.43	-	0.41	0.5	-	0.47
17	0.36	-	0.38	0.43	-	0.42	0.5	-	0.47
18	0.36	-	0.38	0.43	-	0.43	0.5	-	0.48
19	0.36	-	-	0.43	-	-	0.51	-	-
Girls
6	0.38	0.41	0.42	0.47	0.45	0.45	0.55	0.51	0.49
7	0.38	0.4	0.4	0.46	0.45	0.43	0.54	0.52	0.49
8	0.37	0.4	0.4	0.45	0.45	0.43	0.53	0.52	0.48
9	0.36	0.4	0.39	0.44	0.45	0.42	0.53	0.53	0.48
10	0.36	0.39	0.39	0.44	0.44	0.41	0.52	0.53	0.47
11	0.36	0.38	0.38	0.44	0.44	0.41	0.52	0.53	0.46
12	0.36	0.37	0.38	0.44	0.43	0.4	0.52	0.52	0.46
13	0.36	-	0.37	0.44	-	0.4	0.52	-	0.45
14	0.36	-	0.37	0.44	-	0.4	0.53	-	0.45
15	0.37	-	0.37	0.45	-	0.4	0.53	-	0.45
16	0.37	-	0.38	0.45	-	0.4	0.54	-	0.45
17	0.37	-	0.38	0.45	-	0.41	0.54	-	0.46
18	0.38	-	0.39	0.46	-	0.42	0.55	-	0.47
19	0.38	-	-	0.46	-	-	0.55	-	-

Comparison between waist-to-height ratio 10^th, 50^th and 90^th percentiles for Yemeni (Y), Pakistani (P), and Norwegian (N) boys and girls.