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Childhood overweight and obesity among Kenyan pre-school children: association with maternal and early child nutritional factors—Erratum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2010

Constance A Gewa
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Public Health Nutrition , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , January 2010, pp. 146
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Copyright © The Author 2010

doi:10.1017/S136898000999187X, Published online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2009

On page 3 in paragraph 2 of Results: Replace the current last sentence in the paragraph

Overweight/obese children also had a higher percentage of mothers who were overweight and obese (P < 0·001; Table 3).

Table 3

Comparison of household and maternal factors by children’s overweight/obesity status: Kenyan Demographic and Health Survey, April–September 2003

Overweight/obese, BMI > 85th percentile; not overweight/obese, BMI ≤ 85th percentile.

Percentage values were significantly different between overweight status: *P < 0·05, **P < 0·01, ***P < 0·001.

with the following sentence

Overweight/obese children had a higher percentage of mothers who were overweight and obese (P < 0·001; Table 3) and they came from smaller households (5·90 (sd 0·14) v. 6·25 (sd 0·10), P = 0·037).

Revised table 3

References

Gewa, Constance A. Childhood overweight and obesity among Kenyan pre-school children: association with maternal and early child nutritional factors. Public Health Nutrition, First View article doi:10.1017/S136898000999187X; Published online by Cambridge University Press 05 Nov 2009.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Table 3Comparison of household and maternal factors by children’s overweight/obesity status: Kenyan Demographic and Health Survey, April–September 2003