The prevalence of underweight, overweight and obesity in a multiracial group of urban adolescent schoolchildren in the Cape Metropole area of Cape Town

Niekerk, Sjan-Mari van; Grimmer, Karen; Louw, Quinette

doi:10.1080/16070658.2014.11734480

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“…30 The 17-yearold girls had the highest prevalence of overweight (22%) in the study from the Cape metropole. 31 The authors state that differences between studies may be owing to differences in the racial composition of the study populations, and/or their access to food. It is also true that different cut-off points were used in the studies, and that the same number of adolescents may not be classified as underweight or overweight, respectively, according to the internationally accepted BMI cut-off points for children, as would be the case if the World Health Organization z-scores for weight for age or BMI for age were applied.…”

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Pattern of Underweight and Overweight in Lagos Southwest Nigeria

Abiola

Arinipade

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Pattern of Underweight and Overweight in Lagos Southwest Nigeria

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“…In South Africa, there are few studies that have been conducted on the double burden of malnutrition among children and adolescents in both the rural and the urban settings [3, 9, 23–25], but the urban-rural difference of the double burden of malnutrition that may exist has not been well documented [15]. Furthermore, not much has been done to investigate the presence of the double burden of malnutrition at a household level using child-mother pairs in South Africa.…”

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The double burden of malnutrition in a rural health and demographic surveillance system site in South Africa: a study of primary schoolchildren and their mothers

Modjadji

Madiba

2019

BMC Public Health

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Background: In South Africa, the occurrence of the double burden of malnutrition is on the rise at a household level predisposing children and their mothers to negative health outcomes. However, few studies have been conducted at a household level. Therefore, we studied a double burden of malnutrition using child-mother pairs in a rural setting. Methods: A cross-sectional quantitative survey was conducted among 508 child-mother pairs selected from primary schools using a multistage sampling in a rural Dikgale Health and Demographic Site in Limpopo Province, South Africa. Anthropometric measurements of children and mothers, and socio-demographic data were collected. WHO AnthroPlus was used to generate body-mass-index z-scores of children and the BMI was used to indicate overweight and obesity among the mothers. Mann Whitney test was used to compare the means of variables between sexes and age groups, while the prevalence of thinness and overweight/obesity were compared using a chi-square. Multivariate logistic regression with a stepwise backward elimination procedure, controlling for confounding, was used to determine the association between the thinness and overweight/obesity and the covariates. Results: Twenty five percent (25%) of the children were thin, 4% were overweight and 1% obese, while mothers were overweight (27.4%) and 42.3% obesity (42.3%) were observed among the mothers. The odds of being thin were higher in boys than in girls (AOR = 1.53, 95%CI: 1.01-2.35). Overweight/obese mothers were more likely to have thin children (AOR = 1.48, 95% CI: 1.01-2.18) and less likely to have overweight/obese children (AOR = 0.18, 95%CI: 0.07-0.46). Conclusion: A double burden of malnutrition was observed on a household level with thinness among children and overweight/obesity among mothers. A need to address the dual problems of undernutrition and rapidly rising trends of overweight/obesity cannot be overemphasized .

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“…In these national studies, the prevalence of stunting among adolescents was similar to the prevalence among children of 7–9 years old ( 35 , 36 ) . Adolescents from low socio-economic status settings ( 31 , 55 ) had a higher prevalence of underweight than children from higher socio-economic status areas ( 56 – 59 ) . In national studies, the underweight prevalence did not change from 2002 to 2011 (9 % and 7 %, respectively) ( 53 , 54 ) .…”

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Anthropometric nutritional status of children (0–18 years) in South Africa 1997–2022: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Kruger,

Visser,

Malan

et al. 2023

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To conduct a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis of the available literature on the anthropometric nutritional status of South African infants and children, 0–18 years old and to report on trends of changes in nutritional status over the period 1997–2022. Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Setting: Review of the available literature on the anthropometric nutritional status of South African infants and children, 0–18 years old, over the period 1997–2022. Participants: South African infants and children, 0–18 years old. Results: Only quantitative data from ninety-five publications that described the nutritional status in terms of anthropometry were included. Most recent studies applied the WHO 2006 and 2007 definitions for malnutrition among children 0–5 years old and 5–19 years old, respectively. Meta-analysis of all prevalence data shows the highest stunting prevalence of 25·1 % among infants and preschool children, compared to 11·3 % among primary school-age children and 9·6 % among adolescents. Furthermore, the overweight and obesity prevalence was similar among children younger than 6 years and adolescents (19 %), compared to 12·5 % among primary school-age children. In national surveys, adolescent overweight prevalence increased from 16·9 % in 2002 to 23·1 % in 2011. Meta-regression analysis shows a decrease in stunting among children 6–18 years old and an increase in combined overweight and obesity in the 10–19 years age group. Conclusion: The double burden of malnutrition remains evident in South Africa with stunting and overweight/obesity the most prevalent forms of malnutrition among children.

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The prevalence of underweight, overweight and obesity in a multiracial group of urban adolescent schoolchildren in the Cape Metropole area of Cape Town

Cited by 9 publications

References 46 publications

Pattern of Underweight and Overweight in Lagos Southwest Nigeria

Pattern of Underweight and Overweight in Lagos Southwest Nigeria

The double burden of malnutrition in a rural health and demographic surveillance system site in South Africa: a study of primary schoolchildren and their mothers

Anthropometric nutritional status of children (0–18 years) in South Africa 1997–2022: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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