Prevalence of toddler, child and adolescent overweight and obesity derived from primary care electronic medical records: an observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Population monitoring and surveillance of objectively measured child weight data in Canada is limited to national surveys with poor regional applicability, and no healthy weight data are available for children less than 2 years of age. We aimed to determine the prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity using objective measures derived from primary care electronic medical records.

Methods

Observational data included all height and weight records for children less than 20 years of age, between 2004 and 2013, from 3 Ontario primary care research networks. We calculated body mass index (BMI)-for-age and weight-for-length using the World Health Organization Growth Standards and Reference to assign growth status indicator categories by age group. Descriptive data a

SUBMITTER: Biro S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5047841 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul-Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature