{"id":1170,"date":"2019-06-04T11:11:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T15:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/?page_id=1170"},"modified":"2020-05-05T11:57:33","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T15:57:33","slug":"child-obesity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/child-obesity\/","title":{"rendered":"Child Obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"in-page-tabs\"><ul id=\"menu-child-obesity\" class=\"menu nav nav-tabs\"><li id=\"menu-item-1581\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\"><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/child-obesity\/\">Overall<\/a><\/li><li id=\"menu-item-1580\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\"><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/child-obesity\/age\/\">Age<\/a><\/li><li id=\"menu-item-1645\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\"><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/child-obesity\/child-obesity-by-gender\/\">Gender<\/a><\/li><li id=\"menu-item-1579\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\"><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/child-obesity\/income\/\">Income<\/a><\/li><li id=\"menu-item-1577\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page\"><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/child-obesity\/race-ethnicity\/\">Race\/Ethnicity<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div id=\"pl-1170\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-1170-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-1170-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-1170-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><h2>Population Health<\/h2>\n<h3>Child Obesity - Overall Statistics for Connecticut<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-1170-0-0-1\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-accordion\" data-index=\"1\" ><div class=\"panel-widget-style panel-widget-style-for-1170-0-0-1\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-accordion so-widget-sow-accordion-default-d8f4bee39ace-1170\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t><div>\n\t<div class=\"sow-accordion\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"sow-accordion-panel\"\n\t\t\t data-anchor=\"summary-of-results\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sow-accordion-panel-header-container\" role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sow-accordion-panel-header\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" id=\"accordion-label-summary-of-results\" aria-controls=\"accordion-content-summary-of-results\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sow-accordion-title sow-accordion-title-icon-left\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSummary of Results\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sow-accordion-open-close-button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sow-accordion-open-button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"sow-icon-ionicons\" data-sow-icon=\"&#xf218;\"\n\t\t \n\t\taria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sow-accordion-close-button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"sow-icon-ionicons\" data-sow-icon=\"&#xf209;\"\n\t\t \n\t\taria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"sow-accordion-panel-content\"\n\t\t\t\trole=\"region\"\n\t\t\t\taria-labelledby=\"accordion-label-summary-of-results\"\n\t\t\t\tid=\"accordion-content-summary-of-results\"\n\t\t\t\tstyle=\"display: none;\"\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sow-accordion-panel-border\" tabindex=\"0\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>Reducing obesity is strongly associated with improved health. Childhood obesity can have many harmful effects on the body and puts children at greater risk for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes, asthma, joint and musculoskeletal issues among others. Children with obesity tend to become obese as adults and their risk for weight-related diseases tends to be more severe.<\/p>\n\n<p>Childhood obesity is determined by measuring Body Mass Index (BMI). BMI is a screening and diagnostic tool for weight and is calculated based on a person\u2019s weight and height. Childhood obesity is defined as a BMI measurement at or above the 95th percentile for children of the same age and gender. The SIM Data Dashboard used BRFSS data to calculate childhood obesity based on respondent\u2019s report of the child\u2019s height and weight.<\/p>\n<h4>Overall<\/h4>\n<ul>\n \t<li>The goal of CT SIM was to reduce the percentage of childhood obesity to 13.2% by 2020. In the years prior to the CT SIM implementation (2014\/2015), the percentage of childhood obesity was 13.5.<\/li>\n \t<li>In 2016, the first CT SIM implementation year, the percentage increased to 16.0 (a 2.5% increase) and increased to 18.9% in 2017 (another 2.9% increase).<\/li>\n \t<li>In 2018, child obesity decreased by 0.4% to 18.5%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n___________________\n<h4>Information Sources<\/h4>\n<ul>\n \t<li><a class=\"nonblock\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/obesity\/childhood\/causes.html\">Childhood Obesity Causes &amp; Consequences<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-1170-0-0-2\" class=\"widget_text so-panel widget widget_custom_html panel-last-child\" data-index=\"2\" ><div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/views\/brfss17_overall_chO\/overall_Childobs?:display_count=y&publish=yes&:toolbar=n&:origin=viz_share_link:showVizHome=no\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"850\" height=\"950\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Population Health Child Obesity &#8211; Overall Statistics for Connecticut<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1235,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-blank.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 21:08:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3367,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1170\/revisions\/3367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/population-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}