News-Medical.Net November 4, 2024
Uppsala University

More children have overweight in regions with high rates of single parenthood, low education levels, low income and high child poverty. The pandemic may also have reinforced this trend. This is shown by a study conducted by researchers at Uppsala University and Region Sörmland in collaboration with Region Skåne.

“During and after the pandemic, we see a greater difference between regions in terms of children’s weight. It even looks like it has exacerbated health inequalities,” explains Charlotte Nylander, a researcher at Uppsala University and the Centre for Clinical Research in Region Sörmland, where she is also a Senior Consultant in Child Health Care.

Approximately 85 percent of all Swedish four-year-olds in 2018, 2020 and 2022 were included in the study,...

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