title: [Prevalence of overweight and obesity in children from Monterrey, Nuevo León].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Pediatric obesity is a major health problem around the globe. It has increased in the last decades up to 30 % (in 2010). The aim of this study was to establish the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children from zero to 14 years from three family medicine units and one school.
  
  
  METHODS
  A prospective study of prevalence, which included children of both sexes who assisted to three family medicine units and a junior high school. We assessed the somatometry and compared it in accordance to the World Health Organization 2006-2007 references and standards.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The overall overweight and obesity prevalence in 1624 children was 45.5 % (15.5 % of overweight and 29.9 % of obesity, respectively). A total of 354 of 840 women (42.1 %) and 385 of 784 men (49 %) had overweight and obesity (p &lt; 0.05). In both sexes, we did not observed a difference in overweight (15.7, women; 15.4, men). However, with regards to obesity, women showed 26.4 versus 33.6 of men (p &lt; 0.05). We observed only one family unit with major obesity prevalence, which probably had an initial overestimation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We found one of the highest prevalences of overweight and obesity in children at a national level: up to 45 % in a state of Mexican northwestern. Obesity doubled overweight, and it was almost 10 % higher in men than in women.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Investigación Biomédica del Noreste. Centro de Investigación Biomédica del Noreste, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Monterrey, Nuevo León México. rjorgeh642@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Ricardo Jorge
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Hernández-Herrera
authors.forename: Álvaro
authors.initials: Á
authors.lastname: Mathiew-Quirós
authors.forename: Oscar
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Díaz-Sánchez
authors.forename: Norma Orelia
authors.initials: NO
authors.lastname: Reyes-Treviño
authors.forename: Criselda
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Álvarez-Álvarez
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Villanueva-Montemayor
authors.forename: Laura Hermila
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: de la Garza-Salinas
authors.forename: Eduardo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: González-Guajardo
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico / Q000453:epidemiology; D050177:Overweight / Q000453:epidemiology*; D063766:Pediatric Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015995:Prevalence; D011446:Prospective Studies
keywords: Pediatric obesity; Prevalence