Study Results from Chodang University Update Understanding of Obesity [Risk Factors for Obesity in Five-Year-Old Children: Based on Korean National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) Data]: Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases and Conditions – Obesity

2022 APR 12 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Business Daily -- Researchers detail new data in obesity. According to news reporting originating from Chodang University by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “This study aimed to identify the risk factors for obesity in five-year-old children using data from the database of the Korean National Health Insurance Service.”

Our news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Chodang University: “We identified 26,047 children who underwent the sixth screening (at age 5) from the 2017 National Health Screening Program for Infant and Children and for whom data from the fourth screening (at age 3) database and the mothers’ health screening and eligibility database were available. To identify the risk factors of obesity, odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals were calculated by a hierarchical multiple logistic regression. Female sex, a birth weight of over 4 kg, the ‘caution/refer’ remark during developmental screening at ages three and five, maternal obesity, and a middle-level income were risk factors for obesity in the subjects. Good appetite, high consumption of milk, heavy intake of sweet food at age three, speedy eating, irregular meals and snack times, large single-meal quantities, heavy intake of oily and salty food, and not performing physical exercise at age five were also considered significant risk factors.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “For early intervention efforts to prevent childhood obesity, modifiable behavioral factors and other obesity risk factors identified in this study could be used to target high-risk children and dietary behaviors.”

For more information on this research see: Risk Factors for Obesity in Five-Year-Old Children: Based on Korean National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) Data. Children, 2022,9(314):314. (Children - http://www.mdpi.com/journal/children). The publisher for Children is MDPI AG.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/children9030314.

Our news editors report that more information may be obtained by contacting Mi Jin Choi, Department of Nursing, Chodang University, Muan-gun 58530, South Korea. Additional authors for this research include Hyunju Kang, Jimi Choi.

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