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Adolescent obesity in Lebanese private schools
Hilda Chakar1, Pascale R Salameh
1Faculty of Medicine, University of Balamand, Lebanon.
Background:
Obesity has become a public health problem worldwide. Our objective was to calculate the prevalence of overweight and obesity.
Methods:
It is a cross sectional study of adolescents in private Lebanese schools, aged 10-18 years. Gender, birth date and measures of weight and height were recorded.
Results:
In 12,299 adolescents, we found high prevalence of obesity (7.5%) and at risk of obesity (24.4%). In girls, risk of obesity and obesity prevalence decrease with increasing age (P < 10(-4)) as compared with that in boys.
Conclusion:
Early recognition of obesity should become routine in paediatric ambulatory care settings.
