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AJPH First Look, published online ahead of print Jul 28, 2005
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Incidence and Remission Rates of Overweight Among Children Aged 5 to 13 Years in a District-Wide School Surveillance System

Juhee Kim, ScD, Aviva Must, PhD, Garrett M. Fitzmaurice, ScD, Matthew W. Gillman, MD, SM, Virginia Chomitz, PhD, Ellen Kramer, ScD, Robert McGowan, EdD and Karen E. Peterson, ScD, RD

Juhee Kim is with the Departments of Nutrition and Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass, and the Institute for Community Health, Cambridge, Mass. Aviva Must is with the Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston. Garrett M. Fitzmaurice is with the Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, and the Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Matthew W. Gillman is with the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and Harvard Medical School, and the Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health. Virginia Chomitz is with the Institute for Community Health. Ellen Kramer is with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston. Robert McGowan is with the Cambridge Public Schools, Cambridge, Mass. Karen E. Peterson is with the Departments of Nutrition and Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health.



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  		FIGURE 1—— Weight status at 1-year follow-up as a percentage of the sample, by gender and baseline weight status: Cambridge Public School Health Surveillance System, 1999–2003.

Note. Data were based on 11 256 measurements of 5249 children. See "Measures" section in this article for description of weight status categories. Among the children who were in the healthy weight group at baseline, 0.7% of boys and 0.3% of girls (0.5% overall) were overweight at the follow-up.

 




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