[Prevalence of overweight and obesity in children from Monterrey, Nuevo León].
| Autor: | Hernández-Herrera RJ; Centro de Investigación Biomédica del Noreste. Centro de Investigación Biomédica del Noreste, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Monterrey, Nuevo León México. rjorgeh642@gmail.com., Mathiew-Quirós Á, Díaz-Sánchez O, Reyes-Treviño NO, Álvarez-Álvarez C, Villanueva-Montemayor D, de la Garza-Salinas LH, González-Guajardo E |
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| Jazyk: | Spanish; Castilian |
| Zdroj: | Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social [Rev Med Inst Mex Seguro Soc] 2014; Vol. 52 Suppl 1, pp. S42-7. |
| Abstrakt: | Background: Pediatric obesity is a major health problem around the globe. It has increased in the last decades up to 30 % (in 2010). The aim of this study was to establish the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children from zero to 14 years from three family medicine units and one school. Methods: A prospective study of prevalence, which included children of both sexes who assisted to three family medicine units and a junior high school. We assessed the somatometry and compared it in accordance to the World Health Organization 2006-2007 references and standards. Results: The overall overweight and obesity prevalence in 1624 children was 45.5 % (15.5 % of overweight and 29.9 % of obesity, respectively). A total of 354 of 840 women (42.1 %) and 385 of 784 men (49 %) had overweight and obesity (p < 0.05). In both sexes, we did not observed a difference in overweight (15.7, women; 15.4, men). However, with regards to obesity, women showed 26.4 versus 33.6 of men (p < 0.05). We observed only one family unit with major obesity prevalence, which probably had an initial overestimation. Conclusions: We found one of the highest prevalences of overweight and obesity in children at a national level: up to 45 % in a state of Mexican northwestern. Obesity doubled overweight, and it was almost 10 % higher in men than in women. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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