Obesity Severity, Dietary Behaviors, and Lifestyle Risks Vary by Race/Ethnicity and Age in a Northern California Cohort of Children with Obesity

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
	( = 1115)	( = 3484)	( = 3257)
	%	%	%
Eating breakfast <6 days a week	28.9	34.1^a	58.8^a
Eating meals with family <5 times a week	34.9	39.4^a	54.2^a
Eating <5 servings of fruit/vegetables a day	45.1	54.8^a	61.6^a
Eating <3 servings of vegetables a day	60.2	65.6^a	70.9^a
Eating <3 servings of fruit a day	44.0	55.2^a	63.7^a
Eating ≥3 sugary or salty snacks a day	24.1	28.1^a	31.9^a
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	65.0^a	67.6^a
60 min exercise <3 times a week	16.6	28.6^a	36.9^a
TV, computer, or video games ≥3 hours a day	31.4	43.4^a	63.5^a
Inadequate number of hours of sleep per night^1	6.7	1.2^a	8.9^a

PE = school-based physical education or recess; TV = television. Column s 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.
Significantly () different from ages 3–5 after adjusting for child’s sex and race/ethnicity.