Haas Jennifer S, Lee Lisa B, Kaplan Celia P, Sonneborn Dean, Phillips Kathryn A, Liang Su-Ying
Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Am J Public Health. 2003 Dec;93(12):2105-10. doi: 10.2105/ajph.93.12.2105.
We examined the effect of race, socioeconomic status, and health insurance status on the prevalence of overweight among children and adolescents.
We studied an observational cohort from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component.
In the younger group, both Black and Latino children had a greater likelihood of being overweight compared with White children. Among the adolescent group, Latinos and Asian/Pacific Islanders were more likely to be overweight. Among adolescents, lacking health insurance and having public insurance were both positively associated with the prevalence of overweight. A relationship between insurance status and overweight was not observed for younger children.
There are substantial racial differences in the prevalence of overweight for children and adolescents. Health insurance status is associated with the prevalence of overweight among adolescents.
我们研究了种族、社会经济地位和健康保险状况对儿童及青少年超重患病率的影响。
我们对1996年医疗支出小组调查家庭部分的一个观察性队列进行了研究。
在较年幼组中,与白人儿童相比,黑人及拉丁裔儿童超重的可能性更大。在青少年组中,拉丁裔和亚太岛民超重的可能性更大。在青少年中,缺乏健康保险和拥有公共保险均与超重患病率呈正相关。在年幼儿童中未观察到保险状况与超重之间的关系。
儿童及青少年超重患病率存在显著的种族差异。健康保险状况与青少年超重患病率相关。