PMID- 28362361
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20170807
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1660-4601 (Electronic)
IS  - 1661-7827 (Print)
IS  - 1660-4601 (Linking)
VI  - 14
IP  - 4
DP  - 2017 Mar 31
TI  - Time Trend and Demographic and Geographic Disparities in Childhood Obesity 
      Prevalence in China-Evidence from Twenty Years of Longitudinal Data.
LID - 10.3390/ijerph14040369 [doi]
LID - 369
AB  - Childhood overweight and obesity (ow/ob) has become a serious threat to many 
      countries, including China. However, limited evidence was obtained from 
      longitudinal data in China. This study examined the secular trends and geographic 
      variation in the prevalence of ow/ob and obesity only, and age, gender, and 
      urban-rural disparities among school-aged children across China. Data from 
      children aged 6-17 surveyed in China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) from 1991 
      (n = 2712) to 2011 (n = 1054) were used. Overweight and obesity were defined 
      based on the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) recommended Asian 
      age-sex-specific BMI cut-off-points. We found that: (1) childhood ow/ob and 
      obesity prevalence increased from 11.7% to 25.2% and from 2.8% to 10.1% during 
      1991-2011, respectively; (2) children aged 6-12 experienced a 1.3 and 1.6 times 
      increase in ow/ob and obesity prevalence than children aged 13-17, respectively; 
      (3) the urban-rural gap in ow/ob prevalence widened; (4) ow/ob prevalence in boys 
      was higher and increased faster than in girls, especially in an urban setting; 
      and (5) geographic variation was observed with faster increases in more 
      economically developed east, central and northeast regions than in the less 
      developed west. The findings added more nuances to the picture of temporal 
      changes in ow/ob prevalence among Chinese children.
FAU - Jia, Peng
AU  - Jia P
AD  - Department of Earth Observation Science, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and 
      Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede 7500, The Netherlands. 
      jiapengff@hotmail.com.
FAU - Xue, Hong
AU  - Xue H
AD  - Fisher Institute of Health and Well-Being, Systems-Oriented Global Childhood 
      Obesity Intervention Program, College of Health, Ball State University, Muncie, 
      IN 47306, USA. hxue@bsu.edu.
FAU - Zhang, Ji
AU  - Zhang J
AD  - National Institute for Nutrition and Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control 
      and Prevention, Beijing 100000, China. shion_zhang@163.com.
FAU - Wang, Youfa
AU  - Wang Y
AD  - Fisher Institute of Health and Well-Being, Systems-Oriented Global Childhood 
      Obesity Intervention Program, College of Health, Ball State University, Muncie, 
      IN 47306, USA. ywang26@bsu.edu.
AD  - Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences, College of Health, Ball State 
      University, Muncie, IN 47306, USA. ywang26@bsu.edu.
LA  - eng
GR  - R01 HD064685/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States
GR  - U54 HD070725/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20170331
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Int J Environ Res Public Health
JT  - International journal of environmental research and public health
JID - 101238455
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Child
MH  - China/epidemiology
MH  - Female
MH  - Health Surveys
MH  - Humans
MH  - Longitudinal Studies
MH  - Male
MH  - Overweight/epidemiology
MH  - Pediatric Obesity/*epidemiology
MH  - Prevalence
PMC - PMC5409570
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - China
OT  - child
OT  - obesity
OT  - overweight
COIS- All authors declare no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2017/04/01 06:00
MHDA- 2017/08/08 06:00
PMCR- 2017/04/01
CRDT- 2017/04/01 06:00
PHST- 2017/02/11 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2017/03/16 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2017/03/28 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2017/04/01 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2017/04/01 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/08/08 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2017/04/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - ijerph14040369 [pii]
AID - ijerph-14-00369 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/ijerph14040369 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2017 Mar 31;14(4):369. doi: 
      10.3390/ijerph14040369.