Abstract

(ENSA) 2000 WORKING GROUP. The high prevalence of overweight and obesity in Mexican children. Obes Res. 2004;12:215–223. Objective: To establish the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Mexican children 10 to 17 years of age according to the percentiles from both the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF). Research Methods and Procedures: Heights and weights were measured in children from nationally representative, randomly chosen households in the Mexican National Health Survey 2000. The study population consisted of 7862 boys and 8947 girls, 10 to 17 years of age. Measure-ments used were the percentage of children in the corre-sponding BMI categories for overweight and obesity spec