Villanueva MD, Hernández HRJ, Salinas MAM, Mathiew QÁ, Sánchez EM

Language: Spanish
References: 15
Page: 151-154
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ABSTRACT

Childhood obesity (CHO) is a major health public problem and it has been raising for last decade in a rapid way. Mexican National Health study made in 2007 put Mexico in the first place of the World in CHO. In order to determine CHO prevalence in a scholar children cohort initiated this study.
Patients and methods: We included 321 children between 6 and 14 years, who assisted continuously to a Familial Physician Clinic of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. We used the criteria of the World Health Organization 2007, which defines overweight as body mass index (BMI) between 85 and 94 percentile, and obesity › 95 percentile for age and gender.
Results: Of a total of 321 children aged 6 to 14 years, 139 (43%) were overweight or obese. 63 (19.8%) were overweight, 76 (23%) with obesity. The male had a lower incidence of overweight (15.7% vs 23.3%). Obesity was more common in men than in women (29% vs 17.7%). The sensitivity of the 90 percentile of waist circumference to detect obesity was 100% in both sexes.
Conclusions: The overweight and obesity is present in 43% of the 321 cohort children studied. This is one of the highest overweight and obesity rates in Mexico. It was 12% more frequent in men than women. Measuring waist circumference is a useful tool to identify children with obesity.

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