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From: Severe obesity in children: prevalence, persistence and relation to hypertension

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The proportion of children and adolescents with moderate and severe obesity by age, sex and race/ethnicity. Comparisons by race/ethnicity within each age-sex group showed that the prevalence of obesity (BMI ≥95th percentile) was significantly different between all racial/ethnic subgroups (p < 0.01) except for differences in obesity prevalence for black vs Asian 6–11 year old boys (p = 0.90), black vs. Hispanic 6–11 year old girls (p = 0.64), and white vs. Asian 12–17 year old boys (p = 0.37). The prevalence of severe obesity (BMI ≥120% of the 95th percentile) was also significantly different between all racial/ethnic subgroups (p < 0.01), except for white vs. Asian (p = 0.06) and black vs. Hispanic 6–11 year old girls (p = 0.96), and white vs. Asian 12–17 year old boys (p = 0.58).

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