Changes in Body Mass Index Among Children and Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has been associated with weight gain among adults, but little is known about the weight of US children and adolescents. To evaluate pandemic-related changes in weight in school-aged youths, the body mass index (BMI) was calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in met...

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Published inJAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 326; no. 14; pp. 1434 - 1436
Main Authors Woolford, Susan J, Sidell, Margo, Li, Xia, Else, Veronica, Young, Deborah R, Resnicow, Ken, Koebnick, Corinna
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States American Medical Association 12.10.2021
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Adolescent
Adolescents
Body mass
Body Mass Index
Body size
Body weight gain
Child
Child, Preschool
Children
Comments
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Electronic health records
Electronic medical records
Female
Humans
Letter
Letters
Male
Online First
Pandemics
Pediatric Obesity - epidemiology
Regression Analysis
Research Letter
Retrospective Studies
Teenagers
United States - epidemiology
Weight Gain
United States
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Summary:The COVID-19 pandemic has been associated with weight gain among adults, but little is known about the weight of US children and adolescents. To evaluate pandemic-related changes in weight in school-aged youths, the body mass index (BMI) was calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) of youths aged 5 to 17 years during the pandemic in 2020 with BMI in the same period before the pandemic in 2019. Here, a retrospective cohort study which was conducted using Kaiser Permanente Southern California (KPSC) electronic health record data is highlighted.
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ISSN:0098-7484
1538-3598
DOI:10.1001/jama.2021.15036