ArticleChildhood obesity (Print)2013
Prevalence of Childhood Obesity among Young Multiethnic Children from a Health Maintenance Organization in Hawaii.
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- Breastfeeding Practices among Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.Journal of obesity · 2016Pooled it
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- Qualitative study on voyaging and health: perspectives and insights from the medical officers during the Worldwide Voyage.BMJ open · 2021Article
- Prevalence of Selected Chronic Conditions Among Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults in Acute Care Settings in Hawai'i.Preventing chronic disease · 2020Article
- Combining Nonclinical Determinants of Health and Clinical Data for Research and Evaluation: Rapid Review.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2019Review
- Validating Stages of Change for Obesogenic Behaviors Across Filipino and Other Asian-American and Pacific Islander Adolescents.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2018Article
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- The prevalence and validity of high, biologically implausible values of weight, height, and BMI among 8.8 million children.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2016Article
- Anthropometric measurement standardization in the US-affiliated pacific: Report from the Children's Healthy Living Program.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2016Article
- Acculturation is Not Related to Physical Activity Stage of Change for Children in Hawai'i.Hawai'i journal of medicine & public health : a journal of Asia Pacific Medicine & Public Health · 2016Article
- Validity of the WHO cutoffs for biologically implausible values of weight, height, and BMI in children and adolescents in NHANES from 1999 through 2012.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2015Article
- Comparing Methods for Identifying Biologically Implausible Values in Height, Weight, and Body Mass Index Among Youth.American journal of epidemiology · 2015Article
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Abstract
backgroundPacific Islander, Asian, and mixed-ethnicity children are not described in national nutrition and health surveys.
methodsData on BMI values of 4608 5- to 8-year-old children available from Kaiser Permanente Hawaii electronic medical records in 2010 were analyzed for prevalence of overweight and obesity and for ethnic differences in BMI and risk for overweight and obesity, controlling for age, sex, neighborhood education level, and on a subset (n=2169) that further controlled for maternal education and maternal age. Kaiser Permanente data allow for reporting of multiple ethnicities.
resultsData revealed that 33% of this child population was of mixed ethnic ancestry. Prevalence of overweight and obesity was 32.6% (12.9% overweight and 19.7% obese). However, Samoan children and children of Native Hawaiian, Filipino, and mixed ethnic ancestries had higher levels of overweight and obesity than whites or Asians. Higher neighborhood education level, higher maternal education level, and older maternal age were associated with decreased risk of overweight and obesity, except for children whose mothers were between 21 and 30 years old, who had a higher risk for obesity than those whose mothers were under 20 years of age (odds ratio=1.34).
conclusionsPopulations of mixed ethnicities in the Pacific region deserve further study related to healthy body size and acculturation to environment and lifestyle.
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