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The City of Molina de Segura, through the departments of Health and Education, the township health centers, and the ministries of Health and Education in the Region of Murcia, held together a new epidemiological study of prevalence of childhood obesity among children aged 3 to 12 years enrolled in schools in the municipality, within the Obesity Prevention Program for Children and Youth Molina de Segura.
To perform this study, have been invited to participate on a voluntary basis to 25 schools with students of these ages and levels correspond to the Early Childhood and Elementary Education.
Measurements are performed by health professionals and students of San Antonio Catholic University (UCAM), belonging to the Degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics, a total of 8,545 children.
The data are anonymous to confidential treatment, trying to determine the body mass index as data that enables the degree of obesity and childhood overweight population.
This new study attempts to verify the current situation and assess the evolution with the previous study in 2007, and where, after weighing and measuring children 6139, we obtained a worrying rate of childhood obesity prevalence of 16.3% and a overweight rate of 26.9%.
The 2007 study received the Research Award 1st National Congress of Pediatrics.
As a complement to be performed an epidemiological survey of children aged 5 ° of Primary.
The study, which started this week on college Cervantes, San Miguel and Our Lady of Fatima, fits in the Obesity Prevention Program Child Molina de Segura, who in recent years has launched numerous performances in the population school and in 2010 won the Ministry of Health NAOS Best Healthy Food Program in School of Spain.
The Councillor for Health, Vicente Quiles Lola wants to "thank all the schools in the municipality cooperation and facilities to be provided to carry out this ambitious epidemiological study. Would also like to thank all the parents who have wanted to participate with their children in the same ".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura
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