Changes in the Incidence of Childhood Obesity.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Examine childhood obesity incidence across recent cohorts.

Methods

We examined obesity incidence and prevalence across 2 cohorts of children in the United States 12 years apart using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies, parallel data sets following the kindergarten cohorts of 1998 and 2010 with direct anthropometric measurements at multiple time points through fifth grade in 2004 and 2016, respectively. We investigated annualized incidence rate and cumulative incidence proportion of obesity (BMI z-score ≥95th percentile based on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention weight-for-age z-scores).

Results

Among children who did not have obesity at kindergarten entry, there was a 4.5% relative increase in cumulative incidence of new obesity cases by end

SUBMITTER: Cunningham SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9879733 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature