B2-9 Quantification of Growth of Philippine Children

Stature, body weight, and the body mass index (BMI) were quantified in cross-sectional sample of 3154 Philippine children aged 7-17 years. This sample was consisted of 1564 boys and 1590 girls in which 396 boys and 350 girls from three villages of Isabela Province, 475 boys and 483 girls from Makati City, 151 boys and 235 girls from Neguilian of Isabela Province, and 542 boys and 520 girls from Quezon City. Mahalonobis Distance and Cook's Distance were used to remove the outliers and influential data points. Methods of regression analysis, MANOVA and LSD test under post-hoc comparison of means were used to quantify the growth of the children. Several predicted equations for different regions were proposed to quantify the growth of the Philippine children.