title: Nutrition in Chinese-Korean Children and Adolescents.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the nutrition habits among Chinese-Korean children and adolescents in Yanbian Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin, China.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were obtained from the Chinese National Survey on Students' Constitution and Health in 1995, 2000, 2005, and 2010 for Chinese-Korean children and adolescents aged 7-18 years. The number of the subjects included was 4789, 4704, 5875, and 5315, respectively.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The rate of the occurrence of stunting showed a declining trend from 1995 to 2010 (for boys: urban, 6.3%; rural, 12.7% in 1995 and 3.5% for both in 2010. For girls: urban, 7.8%; rural, 13.4% in 1995 and 4.2% and 5.5%, respectively, in 2010). Although the ratio of wasting did not show significant differences between the urban and rural children and adolescents in 1995, 2000, 2005, and 2010 respectively, the ratio of occurrence of overweight or obesity increased (for boys: urban, 7.3% and 1.3% in 1995, 17.6% and 12.9% in 2010; rural, 7.0% and 1.3% in 1995, 14.6% and 12.8% in 2010, respectively. For girls: urban, 8.1% and 1.0% in 1995, 17.3% and 8.6% in 2010; rural 5.7% and 0.7% in 1995, 16.4% and 7.4% in 2010, respectively).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The ratio of malnutrition in children and adolescents in Chinese-Korean areas declined from 1995 to 2010, and the distinction in malnutrition between the urban and rural areas was negligible in 2010. Further, the ratio of overweight and obesity increased over this period.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Adolescent Health Assessment and Exercise Intervention, Ministry of Education, College of Physical Education & Health, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
authors.forename: Xiao Jian
authors.initials: XJ
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Adolescent Health Assessment and Exercise Intervention, Ministry of Education, College of Physical Education & Health, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
authors.forename: Ya Tao
authors.initials: YT
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Adolescent Health Assessment and Exercise Intervention, Ministry of Education, College of Physical Education & Health, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China.
authors.forename: Liu
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ji
authors.affiliation: nstitute of Child and Adolescent Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China.
authors.forename: Cheng Ye
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Ji
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D017195:Adolescent Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D044466:Asian People; D002648:Child; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D006130:Growth Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009752:Nutritional Status; D050177:Overweight / Q000453:epidemiology*
keywords: Chinese-Korean children and adolescents; Nutrition; Overweight/Obesity; Stunting/Wasting