Objectively measured pediatric obesity prevalence using the OneFlorida Clinical Research Consortium
Dominick J Lemas1, Michelle I Cardel1, Stephanie L Filipp1
1Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States.
Abstract:
We characterized the prevalence of obesity among Florida children 2-19years old using electronic health records (EHRs). The obesity prevalence for 331,641 children was 16.9%. Obesity prevalence at 6-11years (19.5%) and 12-19years (18.9%) were approximately double the prevalence of obesity among children 2-5years (9.9%). The highest prevalence of severe obesity occurred in rural Florida (21.7%) and non-Hispanic children with multiple races had the highest obesity prevalence (21.1%) across all racial/ethnic groups. Our results highlight EHR as a low-cost alternative to estimate the prevalence of obesity and severe obesity in Florida children, both overall and within subpopulations.
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