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Published in final edited form as: Int J Obes (Lond). 2009 Nov 3;34(1):10.1038/ijo.2009.217. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2009.217

Table 2. Overweight and obesity prevalence (95% confidence intervals), for boys and girls aged 5-10 between 2002/3 and 2006/7.

	2002/3	2004/5	2006/7	Trend p
Boys aged 5-7 yrs
N	839	325	1066
% Overweight	13.7 (11.4,16.0)	15.4 (11.5, 19.3)	15.8 (13.7, 17.9)	0.2
% Obese	4.1 (2.7, 5.4)	5.8 (3.3, 8.4)	5.8 (4.4, 7.2)	0.08
Boys aged 8-10 yrs
N	951	359	1144
% Overweight	18.8 (16.3, 21.3)	20.6 (16.4, 24.8)	19.8 (17.5, 22.1)	0.8
% Obese	5.2 (3.7, 6.6)	4.5 (2.3, 6.6)	5.6 (4.2, 6.9)	0.9
Boys total
N	1790	684	2210
% Overweight	16.4 ( 14.7, 18.1)	18.1 (15.2, 21.0)	17.9 (16.2, 19.5)	0.4
% Obese	4.6 ( 3.7, 5.6)	5.1 (3.5, 6.8)	5.7 (4.7, 6.7)	0.3
Girls aged 5-7 yrs
N	809	324	996
% Overweight	20.5 ( 17.7, 23.3)	21.9 (17.4, 26.4)	19.4 (16.7, 21.9)	0.7
% Obese	6.6 (4.8, 8.3)	8.3 (5.3, 11.3)	5.8 (4.3, 7.2)	0.5
Girls aged 8-10 yrs
N	893	315	1153
% Overweight	25.8 (22.9, 28.6)	24.1 (19.4, 28.85)	23.9 (21.5, 26.4)	0.5
% Obese	7.1 (5.4, 8.7)	6.3 (3.7, 9.0)	6.3 (4.9, 7.8)	0.6
Girls total
N	1702	639	2149
% Overweight	23.3 ( 21.3, 25.3)	23.0 (19.8, 26.3)	21.8 (20.1, 23.6)	0.2
% Obese	6.8 ( 5.6, 8.0)	7.4 (5.3, 9.4)	6.1 (5.1, 7.1)	0.4