Socio-demographic and anthropometric characteristics
This study includes 196 Saudi girls; 64.8% of them were
adolescent school students aged 1318 years, and the rest
of them were young adult college students aged 1929
years (Table 1). Most of the participants have a large family
size consisting of at least six members, and high family
income exceeds 2,000 USD. Furthermore, 43.4% of
mothers and 67.9% of fathers earned a college education
or higher. However, there are no significant differences
between both age groups regarding any of the abovementioned
characteristics. The mean BMI of young adult
girls (23.6) was higher than that of adolescent girls (22.4)
but not significantly. However, mean waist circumference
and hip circumference were significantly higher among
young adult girls compared to adolescent girls.