Prevalence of overweight and obesity in Chinese children and adolescents from 2015 |
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| Authors: | Yunping Zhou Qian Zhang Tao Wang Yanqing Zhang Bo Xu |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention, Zibo Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Zibo, Shandong Province, PR China;2. Department of Public Health, Zibo Maternal and Child Care Hospital, Zibo, Shandong Province, PR China |
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| Abstract: | Background: To update the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents from 2015.Methods: Data for this study were obtained from children and adolescents aged 7–17?years with measured weight and height from the National Surveys on Chinese Students’ Constitution and Health in 2015.Results: Measurements from 29 418 children and adolescents (14 480 boys and 14 938 girls) were analysed. Among children and adolescents aged 7–17?years, the prevalence of obesity was 13.2% (95% CI?=?12.8–13.7%) in 2015. Moreover, the prevalence of obesity for children aged 7–12?years (20.3% (95% CI?=?19.5–21.1%)) was significantly higher than in adolescents aged 13–17?years (9.6% (95% CI?=?9.2–10.0%)) (p?< 0.001).Comment: Obesity was much worse in children than adolescents in China; future studies are warranted to understand why these differences may be occurring. |
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| Keywords: | Overweight obesity prevalence children adolescent |
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