Hayley A Braun, Christi M Kay, Patricia Cheung, Paul S Weiss, Julie A Gazmararian
Impact of an Elementary School-Based Intervention on Physical Activity Time and Aerobic Capacity, Georgia, 2013-2014
Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)
assessed association socioeconomic status residential arealevel 24 wards osaka city differentiated indices mean incomerelated deprivation inequalities childhood obesity emaciation data representative samples 26 474 schoolchildren first fifth grades elementary school third grade junior high school ie ninth grade elementary school osaka city taken somatometric check spring 2016 analyzed crosssectional association socioeconomic factors censusbased annual income ward prevalence childhood overweightobesity emaciation examined prevalence overweightobesity boys girls first fifth grades elementary school third grade junior high school 398 453 1018 869 702 555 respectively prevalence emaciation boys girls first fifth grades elementary school third grade junior high school 014 010 046 106 395 305 respectively mean physical value expressed degree overweight negative correlation mean annual income ward girls first fifth grades elementary school girls third grade junior high school boys first grade elementary school overweightobesity school age greatly affected poverty efforts made prevent emaciation girls also boys junior high school