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The prevalence of reception-aged children living with obesity\u00a0in England during 2021-22 was over twice as high in the most deprived areas (13.6%) than in the least deprived areas (6.2%).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This difference is also seen in year 6 children – with 31.3% living with obesity in the most deprived areas compared with 13.5% in the least deprived areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published by NHS Digital, the\u00a0National Child Measurement Programme, England \u2013 2021-22<\/a>\u00a0<\/sup>report found that the prevalence of reception-aged children living with severe obesity was over three times as high for children living in the most deprived areas (4.5%) than for children living in the least deprived areas (1.3%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP)\u00a0\u2013 overseen by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities and analysed and reported by NHS Digital \u2013 measures the height and weight of children in England annually\u00a0and provides data on the number of children in reception and year 6 who are underweight, healthy weight, overweight, living with obesity or living with severe obesity.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prevalence of reception-aged children living with obesity in 2021-22 was highest in the North East (11.4%) and the West Midlands (11.3%).  It was lowest in the South East (8.7%), South West (8.9%) and East of England (9.2%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For year 6, the prevalence of children living with obesity was highest in the North East (26.6%), the West Midlands (26.2%) and London (25.8%). It was lowest for year 6 children in the South West (19.8%), the South East (20.0%) and the East of England (21.4%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Underweight prevalence was highest in London for reception-aged children at 1.9% and year 6 at 1.7%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prevalence of children living with obesity in 2021-22 was highest for Black children in both reception (16.2%) and year 6 (33.0%). It was lowest for Chinese children in both reception (4.5%) and year 6 (17.7%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Underweight prevalence was highest for Asian children in both reception (4.3%) and year 6 (3.3%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The prevalence of reception-aged children living with obesity\u00a0in England during 2021-22 was over twice as high in the most deprived areas (13.6%) than in the least deprived areas (6.2%). This difference is also seen in year 6 children – with 31.3% living with obesity in the most deprived areas compared with 13.5% in the least […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","tag-obesity-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorsetnews.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorsetnews.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorsetnews.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorsetnews.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorsetnews.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorsetnews.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1102,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorsetnews.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions\/1102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorsetnews.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorsetnews.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorsetnews.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorsetnews.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}