Rates of childhood obesity have increased, study finds
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Childhood obesity is becoming more common and beginning at younger ages, according to a recent study.
The research, published Tuesday in the journal Pediatrics, followed two nationally representative groups of children from kindergarten to fifth grade -- around ages 6 to 11. The first group was studied from 1998 to 2004, and the second group was studied from 2010 to 2016.
The difference between the two groups was striking: Around 16.2% of children who did not have weight issues when they entered kindergarten in 2010 were obese by the end of fifth grade, compared with 15.5% of participants in the same BMI category who started in 1998. Additionally, children studied in 2010 became obese at younger ages than their predecessors in the 1998 group.
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