Prevalence of overweight and obesity in British children: cohort study
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TL;DR
Current estimates of the prevalence of obesity among British children are provided by a birth cohort randomly selected from a larger geographically defined total population cohort born in the Bristol-Avon area in 1991-2, broadly representative of children in the United Kingdom.
Abstract
Estimates of the prevalence of obesity among children are necessary so that the need for preventive measures can be assessed, secular trends monitored, and high risk population groups identified. 1 The aim of this study was therefore to provide current estimates of the prevalence of obesity among British children.