| アブストラクト | OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to use primary care electronic health records to evaluate the prevalence of overweight and obesity in 2-15-year-old children in England and compare trends over the last two decades. DESIGN: Cohort study of primary care electronic health records. SETTING: 375 general practices in England that contribute to the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink. PATIENTS: Individual participants were sampled if they were aged between 2 and 15 years during the period 1994-2013 and had one or more records of body mass index (BMI). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Prevalence of overweight (including obesity) was defined as a BMI equal to or greater than the 85th centile of the 1990 UK reference population. RESULTS: Data were analysed for 370 544 children with 507 483 BMI records. From 1994 to 2003, the odds of overweight and obesity increased by 8.1% per year (95% CI 7.2% to 8.9%) compared with 0.4% (-0.2% to 1.1%) from 2004 to 2013. Trends were similar for boys and girls, but differed by age groups, with prevalence stabilising in 2004 to 2013 in the younger (2-10 year) but not older (11-15 year) age group, where rates continued to increase. CONCLUSIONS: Primary care electronic health records in England may provide a valuable resource for monitoring obesity trends. More than a third of UK children are overweight or obese, but the prevalence of overweight and obesity may have stabilised between 2004 and 2013. |
| ジャーナル名 | Archives of disease in childhood |
| Pubmed追加日 | 2015/01/31 |
| 投稿者 | van Jaarsveld, Cornelia H M; Gulliford, Martin C |
| 組織名 | Department of Primary Care and Public Health Sciences, King's College London,;London, UK. |
| Pubmed リンク | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25633067/ |