Healthy Kids Healthy Communities - Chronic Disease
March 21, 2016
In the fall of 2015, BMI data were collected on 8,167 kindergarten and third grade students in 63 randomly-selected public elementary schools throughout New Mexico. Data were analyzed by grade, gender, and race/ethnicity and results have been weighted to appropriately represent the kindergarten and third grade New Mexico public school populations. The results are illustrated in the 2015 New Mexico Childhood Obesity Update.
