Childhood obesity continues to rise for #africanamericans. #healthcare
(WebMD) Obesity rates among children appear to be dropping for some groups, but not for all, new research suggests.
An analysis including more than 8 million California children and teens showed encouraging declines in obesity following a peak in 2005 among Asian and white boys and girls and among Hispanic boys.
But obesity continued to climb among African-American and American Indian girls and remained stable for Hispanic girls.
And public health efforts aimed at addressing the obesity epidemic do not appear to have had much impact for the heaviest children — those with body mass indexes (BMIs) in the 99th percentile.
The findings can be viewed as both an encouraging and troubling report card on these efforts, researcher Kristine Madsen, MD, MPH, of the University of California, San Francisco, tells WebMD.
Childhood obesity continues to rise for #africanamericans. #healthcareTags: obesity, pediatrics
