Overweight with concurrent stunting in school children from Mexico.

The objective was to document the prevalence of overweight or obesity concurrent with stunting in Mexican children and to identify demographic and socio‐economic characteristics that identify families in risk. A secondary analysis from the Mexican Health and Nutrition Survey 2006. All calculations were adjusted for the complex survey sampling design using the statistical software STATA (Stata, Corp), an a value p=0.05 was considered significant. School children (n=9537), aged 5‐11 years. Anthropometric measurements and socio‐demographic characteristics of the children were recorded. Height ‐for‐age Z scores were low, with a prevalence of stunting (10%). The children also exhibited a high prevalence of overweight/obesity (17%). Fifty‐one (51%) and thirty‐four (34%) children were both stunted and overweight in south and central area, respectively. After adjusting for age, gender and SES, logistic regression analysis showed that south area was associated with three times risk greater of overweight concurrent stunting, compared to the north area, respectively (p=0.036). Concurrent overweight or obesity concurrent stunting is an important public health issue in low‐income areas of Mexico beginning in childhood. Supported by SSA, Mexico