Variation in the Socioeconomic Gradient of Obesity by Ethnicity - England's National Child Measurement Programme.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study examined the prevalence and risk of overweight/obesity among expanded ethnicity categories within boys and girls in England and the differential influence of socioeconomic position using the 2015/2016 and the 2016/2017 cycles of the National Child Measurement Programme.

Methods

This cross-sectional and descriptive study examined surveillance data of weight status among primary school children in England. Data were pooled across data collection years, representing 1.25 million children in Reception (aged 4-5 years) and 1.1 million children in Year 6 (aged 10-11 years). Ethnicity was classified according to National Health Service definitions, and child residence was used to calculate quintiles of Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index. Measured weigh

SUBMITTER: Strugnell C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7540500 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature