Pediatric Obesity

America's teens are growing up and out

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, March 29th, 2004

Today's teenagers are gaining weight at twice the rate of their parents, researchers reported in San Francisco at the 44th American Heart Association annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention.

The Iowa researchers compared the body mass index of a cohort of 518 adolescents in Muscatine, Iowa, ages 15-18 years, from 1971-1981, with that of 228 of their offspring when they were the same age, in 2001-2003. They found that body mass index (BMI) increased from 22.97 to 24.24 among boys and from 21.9 to 24.4 among girls from 1971-1981 to 2001-2003. A BMI of 18.5-24.9 is considered to be normal weight, according to the U.S. National Heart, Lung,...

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