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ORIGINAL RESEARCH Patrick Ip Corresponding Author E-mail address: patricip@hku.hk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6797-6898 Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Correspondence Patrick Ip, Room 123, New Clinical Building, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong. Email: patricip@hku.hk Search for more papers by this author Frederick K. Ho and Hung‐Kwan So contributed equally and are co‐first authors of this study.
Summary Background The incidence of childhood obesity and associated comorbidities are on an increasing trend worldwide. More than 340 million children and adolescents aged between 5 and 19 years old were overweight or had obesity in 2016, from which over 124 million children and adolescents (6% of girls and 8% of boys) had obesity.
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