PMID- 32611456
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210810
LR  - 20230619
IS  - 1475-2727 (Electronic)
IS  - 1368-9800 (Print)
IS  - 1368-9800 (Linking)
VI  - 23
IP  - 15
DP  - 2020 Oct
TI  - Measuring overweight and obesity in Chinese American children using US, 
      international and ethnic-specific growth charts.
PG  - 2663-2670
LID - 10.1017/S1368980020000919 [doi]
AB  - OBJECTIVE: The aim is to determine the disparity between the overweight and 
      obesity prevalence of Chinese American school-aged children and adolescents as 
      measured by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) growth reference 
      and the prevalence as measured by international and ethnic-specific-growth 
      references. DESIGN: This retrospective, cross-sectional study measured overweight 
      and obesity prevalence among a paediatric population using the CDC, International 
      Obesity Task Force (IOTF), World Health Organization (WHO) and an ethnic Chinese 
      growth curve. SETTING: A community health centre in New York City, USA. 
      PARTICIPANTS: Chinese American children aged 6-17 years in 2017 (N 9160). 
      RESULTS: The overweight prevalence was 24 % (CDC), 23 % (IOTF), 30 % (WHO) and 31 
      % (China). The obesity prevalence was 10 % (CDC), 5 % (IOTF), 10 % (WHO) and 10 % 
      (China). When disaggregated by age and sex, the difference was the most prominent 
      in girls; using the China reference compared with using the CDC reference almost 
      doubles the overweight prevalence (school-aged: 31 v. 17 %, P < 0.001, 
      adolescent: 27 v. 14 %, P < 0.001) and the obesity prevalence (school-aged: 11 v. 
      5 %, P < 0.001, adolescent: 7 v. 4 %, P < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: Use of the CDC 
      reference compared with the Chinese ethnic-specific reference results in lower 
      overweight and obesity prevalence in Chinese American girls. Almost half of the 
      girls who were overweight and half of the girls who were obese were not 
      identified using the CDC reference. Using ethnic-specific references or 
      ethnic-specific cut-points may help improve overweight identification for Chinese 
      American children.
FAU - Lau, Jennifer D
AU  - Lau JD
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8362-1309
AD  - Research and Evaluation Department, Charles B. Wang Community Health Center, New 
      York, NY10013, USA.
FAU - Elbaar, Laminasti
AU  - Elbaar L
AD  - Clinical Informatics Department, Charles B. Wang Community Health Center, New 
      York, NY, USA.
FAU - Chao, Eda
AU  - Chao E
AD  - Department of Pediatrics, Charles B. Wang Community Health Center, New York, NY, 
      USA.
FAU - Zhong, Olivia
AU  - Zhong O
AD  - Department of Pediatrics, Charles B. Wang Community Health Center, New York, NY, 
      USA.
AD  - CUNY School of Medicine/Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, New York, 
      NY, USA.
FAU - Yu, Chihang Ray
AU  - Yu CR
AD  - Information Technology Department, Charles B. Wang Community Health Center, New 
      York, NY, USA.
FAU - Tse, Raymond
AU  - Tse R
AD  - Department of Pediatrics, Charles B. Wang Community Health Center, New York, NY, 
      USA.
FAU - Au, Loretta
AU  - Au L
AD  - Department of Pediatrics, Charles B. Wang Community Health Center, New York, NY, 
      USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20200702
PL  - England
TA  - Public Health Nutr
JT  - Public health nutrition
JID - 9808463
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - *Asian
MH  - Body Mass Index
MH  - Child
MH  - China/ethnology
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Female
MH  - *Growth Charts
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - New York City/epidemiology
MH  - Overweight/*epidemiology
MH  - Pediatric Obesity/*epidemiology
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Reference Values
MH  - Retrospective Studies
PMC - PMC10200563
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Chinese American
OT  - Growth reference
OT  - Paediatric obesity
OT  - Paediatric overweight
EDAT- 2020/07/03 06:00
MHDA- 2021/08/11 06:00
PMCR- 2020/10/01
CRDT- 2020/07/03 06:00
PHST- 2020/07/03 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/08/11 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/07/03 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2020/10/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - S1368980020000919 [pii]
AID - 10.1017/S1368980020000919 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Public Health Nutr. 2020 Oct;23(15):2663-2670. doi: 10.1017/S1368980020000919. 
      Epub 2020 Jul 2.