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Nutrición Hospitalaria
On-line version ISSN 1699-5198Print version ISSN 0212-1611
Abstract
BRIZ HIDALGO, F. J.; COS BLANCO, A. I. and AMATE GARRIDO, A. M.. Prevalence of obesity among children in Ceuta: PONCE study 2005. Nutr. Hosp. [online]. 2007, vol.22, n.4, pp.471-477. ISSN 1699-5198.
The continuous increasing of overweight and obesity, among children and adolescents, constitutes an important public health problem. It is necessary to know and quantify this problem in order to delimit its magnitude and to identify the main risk groups. The enKid study (1998-2000) has estimated an obesity prevalence in Spain of 13,9% within the population group aged 2-22 years. Up to now, there was no data available about the city of Ceuta. In this study, it has been estimated an obesity prevalence of 8,75% among the Ceuta population group aged 6-13 years.
Keywords : Chilhood obesity; Children; Overweight; Prevalence.