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. 2016 Jan 14;2016:4287976. doi: 10.1155/2016/4287976

Table 2.

Health-related behaviors and lifestyle risks of pediatric patients with obesity, by age group.

Health behavior/lifestyle risk Age group
3–5 years 6–11 years 12–17 years
(N = 1115) (N = 3484) (N = 3257)
% % %
Eating breakfast <6 days a week 28.9 34.1a 58.8a
Eating meals with family <5 times a week 34.9 39.4a 54.2a
Eating <5 servings of fruit/vegetables a day 45.1 54.8a 61.6a
 Eating <3 servings of vegetables a day 60.2 65.6a 70.9a
 Eating <3 servings of fruit a day 44.0 55.2a 63.7a
Eating ≥3 sugary or salty snacks a day 24.1 28.1a 31.9a
Drinking ≥2 sugary or juice drinks a day 58.0 59.4 59.8
60 min exercise outside PE <5 times a week 44.6 65.0a 67.6a
 60 min exercise <3 times a week 16.6 28.6a 36.9a
TV, computer, or video games ≥3 hours a day 31.4 43.4a 63.5a
Inadequate number of hours of sleep per night1 6.7 1.2a 8.9a

PE = school-based physical education or recess; TV = television. Column Ns are approximate due to missing data.

1The National Sleep Foundation, 2015, consensus guidelines [36] recommend against sleep <8 hours per day (including naps) for children aged 3–5 and <7 hours per day for children aged 6–17 years; these thresholds were used to define inadequate number of hours of sleep per night.

aSignificantly (p < 0.05) different from ages 3–5 after adjusting for child's sex and race/ethnicity.