Measuring health disparities: trends in racial–ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in obesity among 2- to 18-year old youth in the United States, 2001–2010

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• Alternative Title:
  Ann Epidemiol
• Personal Author:
  Rossen, Lauren M. ; Schoendorf, Kenneth C.
• Description:
  Purpose
  
  Although eliminating health disparities by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status (SES) is a top public health priority internationally and in the United States, weight-related racial/ethnic and SES disparities persist among adults and children in the United States. Few studies have examined how these disparities have changed over time; these studies are limited by the reliance on rate differences or ratios to measure disparities. We sought to advance existing research by using a set of disparity metrics on both the absolute and relative scales to examine trends in childhood obesity disparities over time.
  
  Methods
  
  Data from 7066 children, ages 2 to 18 years, in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys were used to explore trends in racial/ethnic and SES disparities in pediatric obesity from 2001 to 2010 using a set of different disparity metrics.
  
  Results
  
  Racial/ethnic and SES-related disparities in pediatric obesity did not change significantly from 2001 to 2010 and remain significant.
  
  Conclusions
  
  Disparities in obesity have not improved during the past decade. The use of different disparity metrics may lead to different conclusions with respect to how disparities have changed over time, highlighting the need to evaluate disparities using a variety of metrics.
  
  
• Keywords:
  Adolescent Adolescents Age Distribution Body Mass Index Body Weight Child Child, Preschool Children Cross-Sectional Studies Ethnic Differences Ethnicity Female Health Status Disparities Humans Inequalities Inequities Male Measurement Obesity Odds Ratio Prevalence Regression Analysis Sex Distribution Socioeconomic Factors Socioeconomic Status United States Weight

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• Source:
  Ann Epidemiol. 22(10):698-704
• Pubmed ID:
  22884768
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4669572
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  22
• Issue:
  10
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:26c24eb4e383f7926194ceb75a689beadd1435592b01dcf151ea0d5697e8af80
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/36756/cdc_36756_DS1.pdf
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