A Single Institution’s Overweight Pediatric Population and Their Associated Comorbid Conditions

Table 1

Study design: inclusion criteria and definitions of patient groups in a specific year.

Patient group	Inclusion/exclusion filters and definitions
All patients	patients with encounter start dates within a specific year^a
All patients with condition	Include (condition criteria + date criteria)
Obese patients	Include (obesity criteria + date criteria)
Obese patients with condition	Include (obesity criteria + date criteria)
	Include (condition criteria + date criteria)
Obese patients without condition	Include (obesity criteria + date criteria)
	Exclude (condition criteria + date criteria)
Nonobese patients	(All patients) minus (obese patients)
Nonobese patients with condition	(All patients with condition) minus
	(obese patients with condition)
Nonobese patients without condition	(Nonobese patients) minus
	(nonobese patients with condition)

aData provided by the Clinical Research Informatics group at Boston Children’s Hospital.