{"id":1962,"date":"2021-09-17T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/info.pediatricsdirectory.com\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2023-07-23T22:55:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T02:55:03","slug":"1962-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/1962\/","title":{"rendered":"Accelerated rise in BMI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/mm7037a3-F-large-1024x829.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1963\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Accelerated rise in BMI (under 12 yr of age) during COVID-19 pandemic<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Estimated body mass index before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, by initial body mass index category, stratified by age group \u2014 IQVIA Ambulatory Electronic Medical Records Database, United States,&nbsp; January 2018\u2013November 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"editorsnote\"><span>EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: &#8220;Among a cohort of 432,302 persons aged 2\u201319 years, the rate of body mass index (BMI) increase approximately doubled during the pandemic compared to a pre-pandemic period. Persons with pre-pandemic overweight or obesity and younger school-aged children experienced the largest increases.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<span class=\"tags-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/bmi\/\" rel=\"tag\">BMI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/obesity\/\" rel=\"tag\">obesity<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/overweight\/\" rel=\"tag\">overweight<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/pandemics\/\" rel=\"tag\">pandemics<\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accelerated rise in BMI (under 12 yr of age) during COVID-19 pandemic Estimated body mass index before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, by initial body mass index category, stratified by age group \u2014 IQVIA Ambulatory Electronic Medical Records Database, United States,&nbsp; January 2018\u2013November 2020. EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: &#8220;Among a cohort of 432,302 persons aged 2\u201319 years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[368,397],"tags":[634,1554,1592,1610],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5322,"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions\/5322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pediatricscommunity.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}