Table 2.
Overall and sex-specific number, proportions (%) of children aged 4–12 years classified as underweight, healthy weight, overweight and obese in 2013 and 2017 from the Diagnoform programme
| 2013 (n 7211) | 2014 (n 3540) | 2015 (n 2937) | 2016 (n 4256) | 2017 (n 1972) | P trend * | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | ||
| 4–6 years | |||||||||||
| Underweight | |||||||||||
| Overall | 69 | 13·64 | 39 | 13·36 | 52 | 15·62 | 226 | 15·86 | 17 | 10 | 0·5294 |
| Boys | 38 | 15·32 | 15 | 10·07 | 32 | 19·28 | 117 | 16·39 | 10 | 13·16 | 0·4994 |
| Girls | 31 | 12·02 | 24 | 16·78 | 20 | 11·98 | 109 | 15·33 | 7 | 7·45 | 0·8283 |
| Healthy weight | |||||||||||
| Overall | 344 | 67·98 | 195 | 66·78 | 230 | 69·07 | 931 | 65·33 | 117 | 68·82 | 0·4148 |
| Boys | 167 | 67·34 | 99 | 66·44 | 113 | 68·07 | 481 | 67·37 | 56 | 73·68 | 0·6266 |
| Girls | 177 | 68·60 | 96 | 67·13 | 117 | 70·06 | 450 | 63·29 | 61 | 64·89 | 0·1108 |
| Overweight | |||||||||||
| Overall | 66 | 13·04 | 43 | 14·73 | 39 | 11·71 | 176 | 12·35 | 26 | 15·29 | 0·7809 |
| Boys | 34 | 13·71 | 27 | 18·12 | 18 | 10·84 | 73 | 10·22 | 8 | 10·53 | 0·0307 |
| Girls | 32 | 12·40 | 16 | 11·19 | 21 | 12·57 | 103 | 14·49 | 18 | 19·15 | 0·1111 |
| Obese | |||||||||||
| Overall | 27 | 5·34 | 15 | 5·14 | 12 | 3·60 | 92 | 6·46 | 10 | 5·88 | 0·2731 |
| Boys | 9 | 3·63 | 8 | 5·37 | 3 | 1·81 | 43 | 6·02 | 2 | 2·63 | 0·2931 |
| Girls | 18 | 6·98 | 7 | 4·90 | 9 | 5·39 | 49 | 6·89 | 8 | 8·51 | 0·5933 |
| 7–9 years | |||||||||||
| Underweight | |||||||||||
| Overall | 456 | 10·46 | 215 | 9·40 | 283 | 13·97 | 315 | 14·51 | 194 | 16·10 | <0·0001 |
| Boys | 238 | 10·92 | 109 | 9·11 | 146 | 14·05 | 144 | 12·70 | 109 | 17·67 | <0·0001 |
| Girls | 218 | 9·99 | 106 | 9·71 | 137 | 13·88 | 171 | 16·49 | 85 | 14·46 | <0·0001 |
| Healthy weight | |||||||||||
| Overall | 2910 | 66·73 | 1588 | 69·41 | 1405 | 69·35 | 1447 | 66·65 | 808 | 67·05 | 0·9297 |
| Boys | 1483 | 68·06 | 838 | 70·07 | 734 | 70·64 | 803 | 70·81 | 409 | 66·29 | 0·66 |
| Girls | 1427 | 65·40 | 750 | 68·68 | 671 | 67·98 | 644 | 62·10 | 399 | 67·86 | 0·7065 |
| Overweight | |||||||||||
| Overall | 719 | 16·49 | 353 | 15·43 | 259 | 12·78 | 274 | 12·62 | 151 | 12·53 | <0·0001 |
| Boys | 339 | 15·56 | 174 | 14·55 | 118 | 11·36 | 133 | 11·73 | 74 | 11·99 | <0·001 |
| Girls | 380 | 17·42 | 179 | 16·39 | 141 | 14·29 | 141 | 13·60 | 77 | 13·10 | <0·001 |
| Obese | |||||||||||
| Overall | 276 | 6·33 | 132 | 5·77 | 79 | 3·90 | 135 | 6·22 | 52 | 4·32 | 0·0153 |
| Boys | 119 | 5·46 | 75 | 6·27 | 41 | 3·95 | 54 | 4·76 | 25 | 4·05 | 0·0510 |
| Girls | 157 | 7·20 | 57 | 5·22 | 38 | 3·85 | 81 | 7·81 | 27 | 4·59 | 0·1466 |
| 10–12 years | |||||||||||
| Underweight | |||||||||||
| Overall | 227 | 9·68 | 102 | 10·63 | 76 | 13·15 | 58 | 8·79 | 150 | 25·13 | <0·0001 |
| Boys | 112 | 8·99 | 43 | 8·74 | 30 | 11·11 | 25 | 7·42 | 70 | 23·65 | <0·0001 |
| Girls | 115 | 10·47 | 59 | 12·61 | 46 | 14·94 | 33 | 10·22 | 80 | 26·58 | <0·0001 |
| Healthy weight | |||||||||||
| Overall | 1519 | 64·80 | 612 | 63·75 | 377 | 65·22 | 430 | 65·15 | 342 | 57·29 | 0·0209 |
| Boys | 825 | 66·21 | 328 | 66·67 | 181 | 67·04 | 236 | 70·03 | 174 | 58·78 | 0·2866 |
| Girls | 694 | 63·21 | 284 | 60·68 | 196 | 63·64 | 194 | 60·06 | 168 | 55·81 | 0·0387 |
| Overweight | |||||||||||
| Overall | 442 | 18·86 | 181 | 18·85 | 92 | 15·92 | 121 | 18·33 | 85 | 14·24 | 0·0170 |
| Boys | 231 | 18·54 | 89 | 18·09 | 37 | 13·70 | 44 | 13·06 | 42 | 14·19 | 0·0044 |
| Girls | 211 | 19·22 | 92 | 19·66 | 55 | 17·86 | 77 | 23·84 | 43 | 14·29 | 0·5122 |
| Obese | |||||||||||
| Overall | 156 | 6·66 | 65 | 6·77 | 33 | 5·71 | 51 | 7·73 | 20 | 3·35 | 0·0661 |
| Boys | 78 | 6·26 | 32 | 6·50 | 22 | 8·15 | 32 | 9·50 | 10 | 3·38 | 09763 |
| Girls | 78 | 7·10 | 33 | 7·05 | 11 | 3·57 | 19 | 5·88 | 10 | 3·32 | 0·0088 |
| Total | |||||||||||
| Underweight | |||||||||||
| Overall | 752 | 10·43 | 356 | 10·06 | 411 | 13·99 | 599 | 14·07 | 361 | 18·31 | <0·0001 |
| Boys | 388 | 10·56 | 167 | 9·09 | 208 | 14·10 | 286 | 13·09 | 189 | 19·11 | <0·0001 |
| Girls | 364 | 10·29 | 189 | 11·10 | 203 | 13·89 | 313 | 15·11 | 172 | 17·50 | <0·0001 |
| Healthy weight | |||||||||||
| Overall | 4773 | 66·19 | 2395 | 67·66 | 2012 | 68·51 | 2808 | 65·98 | 1267 | 64·25 | 0·238 |
| Boys | 2475 | 67·38 | 1265 | 68·86 | 1028 | 69·69 | 1520 | 69·57 | 639 | 64·61 | 0·9895 |
| Girls | 2298 | 64·95 | 1130 | 66·35 | 984 | 67·31 | 1288 | 62·19 | 628 | 63·89 | 0·1031 |
| Overweight | |||||||||||
| Overall | 1227 | 17·02 | 577 | 16·30 | 390 | 13·28 | 571 | 13·42 | 262 | 13·29 | <0·0001 |
| Boys | 604 | 16·44 | 290 | 15·79 | 173 | 11·73 | 250 | 11·44 | 124 | 12·54 | <0·0001 |
| Girls | 623 | 17·61 | 287 | 16·85 | 217 | 14·84 | 321 | 15·50 | 138 | 14·04 | 0·0012 |
| Obese | |||||||||||
| Overall | 459 | 6·37 | 212 | 5·99 | 124 | 4·22 | 278 | 6·53 | 82 | 4·16 | 0·1507 |
| Boys | 206 | 5·61 | 115 | 6·26 | 66 | 4·47 | 129 | 5·90 | 37 | 3·74 | 0·2738 |
| Girls | 253 | 7·15 | 97 | 5·70 | 58 | 3·97 | 149 | 7·19 | 45 | 4·58 | 0·3395 |
*
Cochran–Armitage trend test. Significant P values are indicated in bold.