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Concordance and Discordance in the Geographic Distribution of Childhood Obesity and Pediatric Type 2 Diabetes in New York City.

Acad Pediatr

August 2020

Ronald O. Perelman Department of Emergency Medicine, New York University School of Medicine (M Osorio, CA Koziatek, J Recaii, and DC Lee), New York, NY; Department of Population Health, New York University School of Medicine (LE Thorpe, B Elbel, and DC Lee), New York, NY. Electronic address:

Objective: As rates of childhood obesity and pediatric type 2 diabetes (T2D) increase, a better understanding is needed of how these 2 conditions relate and which subgroups of children are more likely to develop diabetes with and without obesity.

Methods: To compare hotspots of childhood obesity and pediatric T2D in New York City, we performed geospatial clustering analyses on obesity estimates obtained from surveys of school-aged children and diabetes estimates obtained from health care claims data, from 2009 to 2013. Analyses were performed at the Census tract level.

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