Overweight and Obesity Prevalence among Public School Children in Guam.

Background: The Government of Guam passed Public Law 28-87, which established the collection of child Body Mass Index (BMI) measurements in the Guam Department of Education (GDOE). This paper aimed to analyze the BMI data and report the childhood obesity prevalence on Guam.

Methods: Secondary analysis was performed on a repeated cross-section of 106,827 children in the GDOE from 2010 to 2014.