Prevalence of High Weight Status in Children Under 2 Years in NHANES and Statewide Electronic Health Records Data in North Carolina and South Carolina

AbstractObjectivesWe evaluated the prevalence of high weight status in children ages 0 to 24 months (m) using data from electronic health records (EHR) and NHANES. We also examined relationships between weight status during infancy and obesity at 24 months of age. MethodsEHR data from 4 institutions...

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Published in:Academic pediatrics 2022-11, Vol.22 (8), p.1353-1359
Main Authors: Brown, Callie L., MD, MPH, Skinner, Asheley C., PhD, Steiner, Michael J., MD, MPH, Truong, Tracy, MS, Green, Cynthia L., PhD, Wood, Charles T., MD, MPH
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Body Mass Index
Child
Child, Preschool
children
EHR data
Electronic Health Records
Humans
infancy
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Neonatal and Perinatal Medicine
North Carolina
Nutrition Surveys
obesity
Obesity - epidemiology
Overweight - epidemiology
Pediatrics
Prevalence
South Carolina - epidemiology
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Summary:AbstractObjectivesWe evaluated the prevalence of high weight status in children ages 0 to 24 months (m) using data from electronic health records (EHR) and NHANES. We also examined relationships between weight status during infancy and obesity at 24 months of age. MethodsEHR data from 4 institutions in North and South Carolina included patients born January 1, 2013–October 10, 2017 (N = 147,290). NHANES data included study waves from 1999 to 2018 (unweighted N = 5121). We calculated weight-for-length (WFL), weight-for-age (WFA), and body mass index (BMI), excluding implausible values, and categorized weight status (
ISSN:1876-2859
1876-2867
DOI:10.1016/j.acap.2022.03.014