Epidemiological characteristics of waist circumference and abdominal obesity among Chinese children and adolescents aged 6-17 years.
10.3760/cma.j.issn.0254-6450.2018.06.004
- Author:
H Y FANG
1
;
D LIU
1
;
L Y ZHAO
1
;
D M YU
1
;
Q ZHANG
1
;
W T YU
1
;
Y ZHAI
2
;
W H ZHAO
1
Author Information
1. National Institute for Nutrition and Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100050, China.
2. Division of Non-communicable Diseases Control and Community Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Abdominal obesity;
Children and adolescents;
Waist circumference
- MeSH:
Adolescent;
Asian People/statistics & numerical data*;
Child;
China/epidemiology*;
Cities;
Female;
Humans;
Male;
Obesity, Abdominal/ethnology*;
Prevalence;
Waist Circumference
- From:
Chinese Journal of Epidemiology
2018;39(6):715-719
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective: To analyze the epidemiological characteristics of waist circumference and abdominal obesity among Chinese children and adolescents aged 6-17 years. Methods: Data was from the samples of aged 6-17 years in the China National Nutrition and Health Surveillance program in 2010-2012. P(90) (the same age, the same sex) was used as the diagnostic value for abdominal obesity. Results: The overall waist circumference of children and adolescents in all the age groups appeared higher in males than that in females (P<0.000 1), higher in cities than that in the rural areas (P<0.05), and higher in children with high family income than those with middle or low family incomes (P=0.000 3). The rate of abdominal obesity in children and adolescents aged 6-17 years appeared as 11.2% on average and 10.7% and 11.8% for boys and girls, respectively but with no significant difference (P>0.05). Rates on abdominal obesity appeared as 13.2% and 8.5% for boys while as 12.3% and 11.2% for girls respectively, in urban or rural areas. As for the levels of family income, the abdominal obesity rates appeared as 15.8%, 11.5% and 8.8% respectively for boys while 13.5%, 11.9% and 11.6% respectively for girls, under high, middle and low levels of family income. Conclusion: The rate of abdominal obesity in boys seemed more responsive to the impact of income in urban or rural areas.
