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. 2018 May-Jun;60(3):244-253.
doi: 10.21149/8815.

[Overweight and obesity in children and adolescents, 2016 Halfway National Health and Nutrition Survey update]

[Article in Spanish]
Teresa Shamah-Levy  1 , Lucía Cuevas-Nasu  1 , Elsa Berenice Gaona-Pineda  1 , Luz María Gómez-Acosta  1 , María Del Carmen Morales-Rúan  1 , Mauricio Hernández-Ávila  2 , Juan Ángel Rivera-Dommarco  2
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[Overweight and obesity in children and adolescents, 2016 Halfway National Health and Nutrition Survey update]

[Article in Spanish]
Teresa Shamah-Levy et al. Salud Publica Mex. 2018 May-Jun.

Abstract
in English, Spanish

Objective: To estimate recent overweight and obesity prevalences in Mexican population under 20 years from Halfway National Health and Nutrition Survey (Ensanut MC 2016).

Materials and methods: Ensanut MC 2016 is a probabilistic national survey which gives representative information from national, regional and rural/urban levels. BMIz was estimated through weight and height, then it was classified into overweight risk or overweight or obesity ac¬cording to WHO growth reference standards. Association between overweight and sociodemographic information was analyzed through logistic regression models.

Results: Overweight-obesity prevalence was 5.1% in girls and 6.5% in boys<5y, 32.8% in girls and 33.7% in boys 5-11y, and 39.2% in female adolescents and 33.5% in male adolescents. Female adolescents from rural localities increased overweight-obesity prevalence from 27.7% in 2012 to 37.2% in 2016.

Conclusions: Overweight-obesity increased in girls and females, mainly from rural areas. Strategies focued in containing this phenomenon are encouraged to implement in this context.

Objetivo: Actualizar las prevalencias de sobrepeso y obe­sidad (SP+O) y estudiar algunos determinantes asociados en población<20 años, de la Encuesta Nacional de Salud y Nutrición de Medio Camino 2016 (Ensanut MC 2016).

Material y métodos: La Ensanut MC 2016 es una encuesta nacional probabilística. Se estimó el puntaje Z del índice de masa corporal. Se clasificó el riesgo de sobrepeso, sobrepeso y obesidad de acuerdo con el patrón de referencia de la OMS. Se estudiaron variables sociodemográficas asociadas con sobrepeso mediante regresión logística.

Resultados: La prevalencia nacional de SP+O en <5 años fue niñas 5.8%, niños 6.5%; escolares niñas 32.8%, niños 33.7%; adolescentes mujeres 39.2% y hombres 33.5%. Las mujeres adolescentes de localidades rurales mostraron un incremento de 2012 a 2016 de 9.5 puntos porcentuales.

Conclusiones: La prevalencia de SP+O en niñas y mujeres en zonas rurales muestran un aumento importante en un periodo corto, lo que llama a implementar acciones de atención inmediatas.

Keywords: Mexico; dolescents; obesity; overweight; population surveys.

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