Thursday, November 10, 2016

N.C. children in rural counties, high poverty schools face obesity risk

N.C. children in rural counties, high poverty schools face obesity risk


"Overall, 20 percent of the students in the study were obese, a somewhat higher rate than among their peers nationally. However, students living in a rural county were 1.25 times more likely to be obese than their urban counterparts, even when researchers accounted for the county's socioeconomic and racial composition. Obesity was defined as having a Body Mass Index at or above the 95th percentile for students of the same age and sex."

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