Physical growth and sexual maturation of perinatally HIV-infected adolescent males in a southeast Nigerian tertiary hospital: a comparative cross-sectional study

Table 4 Relationship between the subjects’ socioeconomic status (SES)/duration of HAART and physical growth using body mass index

Variables	Undernutrition^†	Normal nutrition	Overnutrition^‡	N = 104	Test statistic	p-value
SES Upper (Classes 1 and 2) Middle (Class 3) Lower (Classes 4 and 5)	5(38.5%) 5(23.8%) 21(30.0%)	8(61.5%) 14(66.7%) 39(55.7%)	0(0.0%) 2(9.5%) 10(14.3%)	13(100.0) 21(100.0) 70(100.0)	FT	0.57
Duration of HAART use Median years (IQR)	8.00(4.00)	9.00(6.00)	9.50(2.00)		1.34	0.30*

NB: BMI-for Age Z score (BAZ) was used to assess nutritional status (Severe thinness = BAZ < -3; Thinness = BAZ − 3 to < -2; Normal = BAZ − 2 to + 1 Overweight = BAZ > + 1 to + 2; Obesity = BAZ > + 2)
^†Undernutrition = Thinness + Severe thinness
^‡Overnutrition = Overweight + Obesity
IQR, Interquartile range, * Kruskal Wallis test, FT, Fisher’s exact test.

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