highly significantp < 0.001
Similarly, girls reporting menstrual morbidities were more likely to experience moderate and severe anemia (45.5%) compared to those without morbidities (21.2%), a difference that was also highly significant (p < 0.001).
Similarly, girls reporting menstrual morbidities were more likely to experience moderate and severe anemia (45.5%) compared to those without morbidities (21.2%), a difference that was also highly significant (p < 0.001).
By contrast, although anemia was more frequent among girls with severe thinness, the association between BMI category and anemia severity did not reach statistical significance (p = 0.553), as shown in Table 2 .