Medical X-Press – Staff Writer
The report, From Crisis to Opportunity: Reforming Our Nation’s Policies to Help All Children Grow Up Healthy, shows that nationally, 16.2 percent of youth ages 10 to 17 years in 2019 to 2020 had obesity, a rate that has held steady for the last five years. Disparities persist, with significantly higher obesity rates seen among non-Hispanic Black (23.8 percent), Hispanic (21.4 percent), and non-Hispanic American Indian/Alaska Native (28.7 percent) children versus White children (12.1 percent) and Asian children (8.1 percent).
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