Eichner June E, Moore William E, Perveen Ghazala, Kobza Cee E, Abbott Kathryn E, Stephens Aietah L
University of Oklahoma Prevention Research Center, College of Public Health, Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.
Obesity (Silver Spring). 2008 Feb;16(2):501-4. doi: 10.1038/oby.2007.60.
Data on Native American children and adolescents are rarely reported along with other racial and ethnic groups. The Healthy Kids Project is part of an effort to describe the prevalence of overweight and obesity in a racially mixed rural area where Native American, Hispanic, African American, and white children reside.
We measured height and weight of students in Anadarko, Oklahoma public schools (n = 1,980) in 2002-2003. All available students (95.7%) whose parents had not opted out of school health assessments were included. From these data, we calculated BMI (weight (kg) / height (m(2))) and used the International Obesity Task Force reference to classify children into BMI categories.
Native American, Hispanic, African American, and white children who live and attend school in the same surroundings are at risk of overweight and obesity. White children had the lowest combined prevalence of overweight and obesity (37.6%), and Native American children had the highest (53.8%) followed closely by African American (51.7%) and Hispanic children (50.5%).
The childhood obesity epidemic includes all racial and ethnic groups to different degrees. In a rural public school, Native American, Hispanic, and African children had higher rates of overweight/obesity than white children.
关于美国原住民儿童和青少年的数据很少与其他种族和族裔群体的数据一同被报告。“健康儿童项目”是一项旨在描述一个多种族混居的农村地区超重和肥胖患病率的工作的一部分，该地区居住着美国原住民、西班牙裔、非裔美国人和白人儿童。
2002年至2003年，我们测量了俄克拉何马州阿纳达科公立学校学生（n = 1980）的身高和体重。纳入了所有其父母未选择退出学校健康评估的学生（95.7%）。根据这些数据，我们计算了体重指数（体重（千克）/身高（米²）），并使用国际肥胖特别工作组的参考标准将儿童分类到体重指数类别中。
在相同环境中生活和上学的美国原住民、西班牙裔、非裔美国人和白人儿童都有超重和肥胖的风险。白人儿童超重和肥胖的综合患病率最低（37.6%），美国原住民儿童最高（53.8%），紧随其后的是非裔美国儿童（51.7%）和西班牙裔儿童（50.5%）。
儿童肥胖流行在不同程度上涉及所有种族和族裔群体。在一所农村公立学校中，美国原住民、西班牙裔和非裔儿童的超重/肥胖率高于白人儿童。
