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Obesity in the Pediatric Population of the National (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample (NIS), USA

Background: The incidence of childhood obesity has received a lot of attention lately, especially in the United States. The increased prevalence of pediatric obesity and its association with comorbidities has piqued the attention of more scientists in the epidemic's patterns. Our research exami...

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Autores principales: Okobi, Okelue E, Izundu, Ijeoma C, Evbayekha, Endurance O, Egberuare, Emmanuel O, Segun, Esther O, Abdulgaffar, Rafiat A, Oyelade, Babatunde O, Onyema, Jenny J, Peresuodei, Tariladei S, Abu-Undiyaundeye, Scholastica Uyileubenye
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Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9884308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36721619
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33111
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author Okobi, Okelue E
Izundu, Ijeoma C
Evbayekha, Endurance O
Egberuare, Emmanuel O
Segun, Esther O
Abdulgaffar, Rafiat A
Oyelade, Babatunde O
Onyema, Jenny J
Peresuodei, Tariladei S
Abu-Undiyaundeye, Scholastica Uyileubenye
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Izundu, Ijeoma C
Evbayekha, Endurance O
Egberuare, Emmanuel O
Segun, Esther O
Abdulgaffar, Rafiat A
Oyelade, Babatunde O
Onyema, Jenny J
Peresuodei, Tariladei S
Abu-Undiyaundeye, Scholastica Uyileubenye
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description Background: The incidence of childhood obesity has received a lot of attention lately, especially in the United States. The increased prevalence of pediatric obesity and its association with comorbidities has piqued the attention of more scientists in the epidemic's patterns. Our research examined the National (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample (NIS) data set for hospitalized persons aged 18 years or younger with primary or secondary obesity between 2016 and 2019 to investigate the prevalence, risk factors, and related diseases. Methods: We retrospectively examined individuals with primary or secondary obesity from 2016 to 2019 using the NIS database. To extract the weighted samples, we utilized the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 diagnostic codes E66, E660, E6601, E6609, E662, E668, and E669. Individuals with drug-related obesity or obesity caused by a recognized pathologic disease unrelated to high-calorie intake were excluded. First, we queried the total population, then separated them by age category and picked our population of interest, i.e., those aged 18 and under. The NIS is a deidentified database available to the public. It collects data on around 8 million hospitalizations annually, accounting for roughly 20% of all admissions in the United States.  Results: The findings show that between 2016 and 2019, prevalence rates of childhood obesity were still on the rise and plateaued in 2019. There were 28,484,087 study subjects in this weighted sample between 2016 and 2019. Of these, 13.9% (3,946,889) were diagnosed with obesity. The sample population for those 18 years of age or under was 62,669 (1.5%) children with obesity with a mean age of 14 (SD = 4). Also, there was a 64.2% female preponderance. The obtained yearly showed a steady and significant rise from 2016 to 2018 (24% vs. 26%), with a slight decline in 2019 (25%; p < 0.001). Even though the white population had the highest overall prevalence of childhood obesity (40.9%), the Hispanic and black people had a higher prevalence per population, with a 0.5% and 0.33% prevalence, respectively, compared to 0.14% in the white population (p < 0.0001). When geographical regions were considered, south had the highest rate (36.40%), followed by the west (24.71%) and the midwest (23.56%). The analysis also showed that people with lower median household income (0-25th percentile) had the highest rate of childhood obesity (38.17%) compared to higher-income earners (13.19%). Conclusion: In our finding, obesity in the pediatric population is still increasing, continuing on its previously recorded trajectory. Various recommendations from health policymakers have bolstered efforts to tackle this escalating pandemic. However, additional information on the compliance, use, and adherence to these policies by healthcare professionals and members of the public, as well as the consequence of utilization or compliance to these guidelines, is needed. Nevertheless, given the continuous growth of childhood obesity, despite the avalanche of these recommendations, the issue of compliance arises, or other essential risk factors might have been overlooked. Additional studies may be needed to unmask this looming phenomenon.
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spelling pubmed-98843082023-01-30 Obesity in the Pediatric Population of the National (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample (NIS), USA Okobi, Okelue E Izundu, Ijeoma C Evbayekha, Endurance O Egberuare, Emmanuel O Segun, Esther O Abdulgaffar, Rafiat A Oyelade, Babatunde O Onyema, Jenny J Peresuodei, Tariladei S Abu-Undiyaundeye, Scholastica Uyileubenye Cureus Family/General Practice Background: The incidence of childhood obesity has received a lot of attention lately, especially in the United States. The increased prevalence of pediatric obesity and its association with comorbidities has piqued the attention of more scientists in the epidemic's patterns. Our research examined the National (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample (NIS) data set for hospitalized persons aged 18 years or younger with primary or secondary obesity between 2016 and 2019 to investigate the prevalence, risk factors, and related diseases. Methods: We retrospectively examined individuals with primary or secondary obesity from 2016 to 2019 using the NIS database. To extract the weighted samples, we utilized the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 diagnostic codes E66, E660, E6601, E6609, E662, E668, and E669. Individuals with drug-related obesity or obesity caused by a recognized pathologic disease unrelated to high-calorie intake were excluded. First, we queried the total population, then separated them by age category and picked our population of interest, i.e., those aged 18 and under. The NIS is a deidentified database available to the public. It collects data on around 8 million hospitalizations annually, accounting for roughly 20% of all admissions in the United States.  Results: The findings show that between 2016 and 2019, prevalence rates of childhood obesity were still on the rise and plateaued in 2019. There were 28,484,087 study subjects in this weighted sample between 2016 and 2019. Of these, 13.9% (3,946,889) were diagnosed with obesity. The sample population for those 18 years of age or under was 62,669 (1.5%) children with obesity with a mean age of 14 (SD = 4). Also, there was a 64.2% female preponderance. The obtained yearly showed a steady and significant rise from 2016 to 2018 (24% vs. 26%), with a slight decline in 2019 (25%; p < 0.001). Even though the white population had the highest overall prevalence of childhood obesity (40.9%), the Hispanic and black people had a higher prevalence per population, with a 0.5% and 0.33% prevalence, respectively, compared to 0.14% in the white population (p < 0.0001). When geographical regions were considered, south had the highest rate (36.40%), followed by the west (24.71%) and the midwest (23.56%). The analysis also showed that people with lower median household income (0-25th percentile) had the highest rate of childhood obesity (38.17%) compared to higher-income earners (13.19%). Conclusion: In our finding, obesity in the pediatric population is still increasing, continuing on its previously recorded trajectory. Various recommendations from health policymakers have bolstered efforts to tackle this escalating pandemic. However, additional information on the compliance, use, and adherence to these policies by healthcare professionals and members of the public, as well as the consequence of utilization or compliance to these guidelines, is needed. Nevertheless, given the continuous growth of childhood obesity, despite the avalanche of these recommendations, the issue of compliance arises, or other essential risk factors might have been overlooked. Additional studies may be needed to unmask this looming phenomenon. Cureus 2022-12-29 /pmc/articles/PMC9884308/ /pubmed/36721619 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33111 Text en Copyright © 2022, Okobi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Family/General Practice
Okobi, Okelue E
Izundu, Ijeoma C
Evbayekha, Endurance O
Egberuare, Emmanuel O
Segun, Esther O
Abdulgaffar, Rafiat A
Oyelade, Babatunde O
Onyema, Jenny J
Peresuodei, Tariladei S
Abu-Undiyaundeye, Scholastica Uyileubenye
Obesity in the Pediatric Population of the National (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample (NIS), USA
title Obesity in the Pediatric Population of the National (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample (NIS), USA
title_full Obesity in the Pediatric Population of the National (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample (NIS), USA
title_fullStr Obesity in the Pediatric Population of the National (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample (NIS), USA
title_full_unstemmed Obesity in the Pediatric Population of the National (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample (NIS), USA
title_short Obesity in the Pediatric Population of the National (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample (NIS), USA
title_sort obesity in the pediatric population of the national (nationwide) inpatient sample (nis), usa
topic Family/General Practice
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9884308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36721619
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.33111
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