Objectively measured pediatric obesity prevalence using the OneFlorida Clinical Research Consortium

We characterized the prevalence of obesity among Florida children 2–19years old using electronic health records (EHRs). The obesity prevalence for 331,641 children was 16.9%. Obesity prevalence at 6–11years (19.5%) and 12–19years (18.9%) were approximately double the prevalence of obesity among children 2–5years (9.9%). The highest prevalence of severe obesity occurred in rural Florida (21.7%) and non-Hispanic children with multiple races had the highest obesity prevalence (21.1%) across all racial/ethnic groups. Our results highlight EHR as a low-cost alternative to estimate the prevalence of obesity and severe obesity in Florida children, both overall and within subpopulations.