Table 6_4_4-1

2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.

Table 6_4_4.1
Overweight^a children and teens ages 2-19 who were told by a doctor or health professional that they were overweight, United States, 2001-2004 and 2005-2008
		2005-2008		2001-2004
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		41.8	1.9	39.5	1.9
Age	2-5	24.6	4.0	23.0	3.1
	6-11	36.5	2.8	36.0	3.1
	12-19	50.1	2.6	47.2	2.8
Ethnicity	Mexican American	43.6	2.8	41.5	3.0
	Non-Hispanic, Black	49.6	2.7	41.6	2.3
	Non-Hispanic, White	38.5	3.0	39.1	2.6
Gender	Male	40.0	2.3	38.9	2.7
Gender	Female	43.8	3.5	40.2	2.1
Family income^b	Negative/poor	45.7	3.1	45.9	4.0
	Near poor/low	45.0	2.8	41.1	2.9
	Middle	38.0	3.0	35.6	2.6
	High	35.3	5.0	36.9	6.2

^a Overweight children and teens were identified as those with a body mass index (BMI) value at or above the 95th percentile of the sex-specific BMI growth chart.

^b Estimates are based on a revised definition of poverty that incorporates information on family income, size, and composition and is calculated as a percentage of the U.S. Census Bureau's poverty thresholds.� Negative or poor refers to family incomes below the Federal poverty line for a given household size and composition; near poor/low, over the poverty line to just below 200 percent of the poverty line; middle, 200 percent to just below 400 percent of the poverty line; and high, 400 percent of the poverty line and over.�� Respondents with unknown poverty information were excluded.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: Table 6_4_4-1: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/6_maternalchildhealth/T6_4_4-1.html