Prevalence of overweight, obesity and low weight in the Czech child population up to 18 years of age in the last 50 years

Vignerová, Jana; Humenikova, Lenka; Paulová, M; Riedlová, Jitka

doi:10.1007/s10389-008-0193-x

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“…Among 15-17-year-old girls it was 6·8 %, and 9·1 % among boys (63) . Our results are also consistent with those in other countries that have undergone a similar transformation as Poland (13,64) . Slimming by girls has also been observed in some Western countries (65) .…”

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Sex differences in prevalence of overweight and obesity, and in extent of overweight index, in children and adolescents (3–18 years) from Kraków, Poland in 1983, 2000 and 2010

Kowal

Woronkowicz

Kryst

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Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: The increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity among children is now an important health problem. This fact, however, does not reflect the scale of the problem. The aim of the present study was to find how much the BMI threshold was exceeded in a population from Kraków. Design: The study was based on three cross-sectional surveys conducted in 1983, 2000 and 2010. The prevalence of overweight and obesity was estimated based on the International Obesity Task Force cut-off points. In addition to these, an extent of overweight (EOW) index was calculated. Setting: Poland. Subjects: Children aged 3-18 years (n 14 534) from Kraków. Results: Between the populations examined in 1983 and 2010, the EOW index in boys rose by almost 10 %, and the prevalence of overweight and obesity by 39 %. In girls, however, the EOW index decreased by 45 %, while the prevalence of overweight and obesity remained at similar levels. Analyses in separate age groups showed that the EOW index increased only among early adolescents (150 % for boys, 94 % for girls) and late adolescents (390 % and 64 %, respectively). Conclusions: The observed increased prevalence of overweight and obesity mainly concerned boys and was accompanied by an increase in the amount by which the BMI threshold values were exceeded. Keywords BMI Extent of overweight Obesity Economic transformationIn the 1960s, Western nations, especially the USA (1,2) and Western Europe (3) , saw a dramatic increase in the frequency of overweight and obesity. In 1998, the WHO (4) declared obesity a major public health epidemic, both in developed and developing countries, and estimated that by 2025 obesity would concern more than half the adult population in the USA, UK and Australia (4) . A similar trend was found among children and adolescents (5,6) . In the period 1963-1991 in the USA the prevalence of overweight among 6-11-year-old children increased from 15 % to 22·5 %, while the frequency of obesity rose from 5 % to 11 %. In the UK in the period 1989-1998 the prevalence of overweight among children under 4 years of age increased from 14·7 % to 23·6 %, and obesity from 5·4 % to 9·2 %. Between the years 1975 and 1995 in Germany, the frequency of overweight among boys (7-14 years of age) increased from 10·0 % to 16·3 %, and among girls from 11·7 % to 20·7 % (7) . However, relatively recent reports from

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Sex differences in prevalence of overweight and obesity, and in extent of overweight index, in children and adolescents (3–18 years) from Kraków, Poland in 1983, 2000 and 2010

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Kryst

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“…Similar results have been reported in other Polish studies, as well as in other countries of the post-socialist bloc (Tutkuviene, 2007;Vignerová et al, 2008;Zadzinska et al, 2011). Along with an increase in the level of education, the number of children with normal body mass rose.…”

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Socioeconomic Status, Body Mass Index and Prevalence of Underweight and Overweight Among Polish Girls Aged 7–18: A Longitudinal Study

Wronka

2013

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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The aim of this paper was to establish whether the influence of socioeconomic factors on BMI and the prevalence of underweight and overweight changes with age. The data were obtained from 1008 schoolgirls aged 16-18 years for whom earlier data on weight and height were available. Their height and body mass were measured and their BMIs calculated. Height and weight in early life were assessed by medical records review. The girls were measured by trained school nurses at 7, 9, 14 years of age. Socioeconomic differences in BMI were found to increase with age. Parents' higher education and urban environment were associated with smaller BMI gain between the ages of 7 and 18 years. Among subjects whose mother and/or father had higher education the prevalence of underweight increased with age, and in other groups it remained at a similar level. In the younger age categories (7- and 9-year-olds) underweight was less frequent in subjects from towns than those from rural areas, while in the older categories (14, 16-18 years of age) the opposite tendency was found. As subjects grew up, there was a decline in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in all groups. Parental education and place of residence seem to influence weight status in a different way in childhood than during adolescence.

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“…The joint prevalence of overweight and obese children increased in general by 4-10% in Hungary between the 1980s and the beginning of the 2000s. This trend is in concordance with epidemiological results from other Central European countries: the continuously increasing trend in prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity was also observed in the first decade of the 21st century in the Czech Republic and Poland (Chrzanowska et al, 2007;Poplawska et al, 2006;Vignerova et al, 2008).…”

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Recent trends in childhood obesity and overweight in the transition countries of Eastern and Central Europe

Bodzsar

Zsákai

2014

Annals of Human Biology

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Prevalence of overweight, obesity and low weight in the Czech child population up to 18 years of age in the last 50 years

Abstract: Aim The main purpose of the study was to analyze the changes in the prevalence of underweight, overweight, and obesity among Czech children and adolescents aged 3-18 within the last 50 years. The secondary purpose

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Sex differences in prevalence of overweight and obesity, and in extent of overweight index, in children and adolescents (3–18 years) from Kraków, Poland in 1983, 2000 and 2010

Sex differences in prevalence of overweight and obesity, and in extent of overweight index, in children and adolescents (3–18 years) from Kraków, Poland in 1983, 2000 and 2010

Socioeconomic Status, Body Mass Index and Prevalence of Underweight and Overweight Among Polish Girls Aged 7–18: A Longitudinal Study

Recent trends in childhood obesity and overweight in the transition countries of Eastern and Central Europe

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