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How To... - Interpret Data - Case Studies -
Overweight
Is overweight changing among specific groups over time?
In addition to knowing who is at risk, it is also helpful to determine
how overweight prevalences have changed by race and ethnicity over time.
Table 18C, Summary of Trends in Growth and Anemia Indicators by
Race/Ethnicity, provides overweight trends for the most recent 10 years by
race and ethnicity.
Sample: Table 18C, Summary of Trends in Growth and Anemia Indicators
by Race/Ethnicity
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Hispanic children 2 to 5 years of age had the highest
prevalence of overweight (17.5%) and the greatest increase in
prevalence during this 10-year period (13.9% to 17.5%). |
The following graph, derived from Table 18C, shows that the trend of
overweight is increasing for the Total or overall prevalence for all
racial/ethnic groups as well as for each race/ethnic group. However,
Hispanic children have the highest prevalence for this trend period.
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Trends in prevalence of overweight
among children aged 2 to <5 years, by race and ethnicity
* > 95th percentile BMI-for-age, CDC Growth Charts, 2000. 5% of
children are expected to fall above the 95th percentile. |
Is overweight changing among specific groups over time?
The increasing trend in overweight is seen in all racial and ethnic
groups with Hispanic children remaining consistently higher than all other
groups.
Summary
The prevalence of 12.9% for overweight children 2 to 5 years of age in
this state is more than twice the expected rate and greater than the prevalence of overweight of 10.4%
for children 2 to 5 years of age in the United States. Hispanic children
have the highest prevalence of overweight. Trend data show that the
prevalence of overweight for children 2 to 5 years of age has increased
from 8.9 to 12.9 percent, a relative increase of 45 percent. The trend of
overweight is increasing for all race/ethnic groups. Therefore,
interventions to prevent overweight should be implemented for all
race/ethnic groups in the WIC program.
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