Trends in Prevalence of Obesity and Overweight Among Children Enrolled in the New York State WIC Program, 2002–2007

OBJECTIVE: We examined recent overweight and obesity trends in a multiethnic population of low-income preschool children. METHODS: We defined overweight as sex-specific body mass index (BMI)-for-age ≥85th and <95th percentile and obesity as sex-specific BMI-for-age ≥95th percentile, and calculate...

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Main Authors: Sekhobo, Jackson P., Edmunds, Lynn S., Reynolds, Daniel K., Dalenius, Karen, Sharma, Andrea
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Association of Schools of Public Health 2010
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2821849/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20297748
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