In their paper ‘Overweight and obese children do not consult their general practitioner more often than normal weight children for musculoskeletal complaints during a 2-year follow-up’ (Arch Dis Child 2018;103:149–54) the authors have found an error in the odds ratios in table 2. The statistics program accidentally inversed the odds ratios. These have now been corrected in table 2 below. This error does not affect the conclusions of the paper.