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Review
. 2008 Nov;31(11):2211-21.
doi: 10.2337/dc08-9024.

Influence of race, ethnicity, and culture on childhood obesity: implications for prevention and treatment: a consensus statement of Shaping America's Health and the Obesity Society

Sonia Caprio  1 , Stephen R Daniels, Adam Drewnowski, Francine R Kaufman, Lawrence A Palinkas, Arlan L Rosenbloom, Jeffrey B Schwimmer
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Influence of race, ethnicity, and culture on childhood obesity: implications for prevention and treatment: a consensus statement of Shaping America's Health and the Obesity Society

Sonia Caprio et al. Diabetes Care. 2008 Nov.
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Figure 1
Overweight prevalence by race/ethnicity for adolescent boys and girls. Error bars represent SEs. (Reprinted with permission. JAMA 288:17281–732, 2002, ©2002, American Medical Association. All rights reserved.)
Figure 2
Figure 2
The socio-ecological framework. Health behaviors of the individual (inner oval) are influenced by interpersonal, organizational, community, and public policy domains represented by the progressively larger ovals. Many influencers span more than one domain.
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