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been measured previously six years earlier in year R during the 2001/2002 school year).
The results of this analysis is presented below. It is intended that this analysis is repeated
using the latest data once the data becomes available 35 .
There were 6,062 children on the Child Health System in year R for 2001/2002 who
were matched to their record on the Child Health System at year 6 for 2007/2008.
However, not all these children had their height and weight measured on both occasions
with approximately 72% having measurements at both ages. Overall, there were 4,348
Hull children with height and weight measured at both year R and year 6. The BMI
weight classifications using Table 410 were used to define underweight, desirable
weight, overweight and obesity.
The Child Health System should include a record for every single child registered with a
General Practitioner within the Hull or East Riding of Yorkshire area. Therefore, in most
cases, if there was no record within the file for a child, it is very likely that the child was
not registered with a GP within the area at one of the ages but was registered with a
local GP at the other age, i.e. because they had moved out of the area or moved into the
area between the ages of 4–5 and 10–11 years. This would result in unmatched
records.
The children with height or weight not recorded could have been away from school on
the day the measurements were taken or not measured for some other reason, for
example, the parents requested that their child was not measured.
Table 118 and Table 119 give the number of boys and girls respectively by BMI category
at year R and year 6. Any estimate of prevalence at these two ages should be treated with
caution as they do not include all those children measured only those who had
measurements taken at both time periods (for overall prevalence see Table 113 and
Table 116). This same information is displayed graphically in Figure 99 and Figure 100.
From this information, it is evident that the majority of children are within the „desirable
weight‟ category at both years R and 6.
35 The intention is to repeat the analysis for year 6 children measured over five years between 2005/2006
and 2009/2010 who were previously measured six years earlier in year R between 1999/2000 and
2003/2004. However, the original Child Health System database is no longer used and the original database
has been migrated to another system (SystemOne). The original child identifier was not transfers, and
another unique child identifier was transferred instead (NHS number). The existing data held by Public Health
Sciences included the old identifier which means that it is not possible to link records from the same children
over time. Therefore, it is necessary that the entire dataset (from 1999/2000) is (re-)obtained (which contains
the new identifier). The request for this data has been made, but the data has not yet been obtained.
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