Prevalence of Overweight Among Children and Adolescents: United States, 1999-2002

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Description:
  Results from the 1999-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), using measured heights and weights, indicate that an estimated 16 percent of children and adolescents ages 6-19 years are overweight. As shown in Table1, this represents a 45 percent increase from the overweight estimates of 11 percent obtained from NHANES III (1988-94).
  
  Body mass index, expressed as weight/height2 (Bilk/m2) is commonly used to classify overweight and obesity among adults, and is also recommended to identify children who are overweight or at risk of becoming overweight. Coto criteria are based on the 2000 CDC BMI-for-age-growth charts for the United States. Based on current recommendations of expert committees, children with BMI values at or above the 95th percentile of the sex-speciefic BMI growth charts are categorized as overweight.
  
  
• Content Notes:
  ID47_HEStat_overweight99.pdf
• Subjects:
  Overweight
• Source:
  National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
• Series:
  NCHS Health E-Stats
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report ; Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Center for Health Statistics
• Topic:
  Health Statistics
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  2 pdf pages
• Collection(s):
  National Center for Health Statistics
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