Assessing Disparities about Overweight and Obesity in Pakistani Youth Using Local and International Standards for Body Mass Index.

Autor: Asif M; Department of Statistics, Govt. Graduate College Qadir Pur Raan, Multan 60000, Pakistan., Qureshi HAI; The Children Hospital and Institute of Child Health, Multan 60000, Pakistan., Seyal SM; South City Hospital, District Headquarter (DHQ) Sadar, Multan 60000, Pakistan., Aslam M; Department of Statistics, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan 60800, Pakistan., Sultan MT; Department of Human Nutrition, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan 60800, Pakistan., Elwahab MEA; Department of Mathematical Sciences, College of Science, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh 11564, Saudi Arabia., Matłosz P; Institute of Physical Culture Sciences, Medical College of Rzeszow University, 35-959 Rzeszów, Poland., Wyszyńska J; Institute of Health Sciences, Medical College of Rzeszow University, 35-959 Rzeszów, Poland.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of clinical medicine [J Clin Med] 2024 May 16; Vol. 13 (10). Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 May 16.
DOI: 10.3390/jcm13102944
Abstrakt: Background/Objectives: Obesity is currently considered a public health problem in both developed and developing countries. Gender- and age-specific body mass index (BMI) growth standards or references are particularly effective in monitoring the global obesity pandemic. This study aimed to report disparities in age-, gender- and ethnic-specific statistical estimates of overweight and obesity for 2-18 years aged Pakistani children and adolescents using the World Health Organization (WHO), the Center for Disease Control (CDC) 2000 references, the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) and Pakistani references for BMI. Methods : The study used secondary data of 10,668 pediatric population, aged 2-18 years. Demographic information like age (years), gender, city and anthropometric examinations, i.e., height (cm) and weight (kg) were used in this study. The recommended age- and gender-specific BMI cut-offs of the WHO, CDC 2000 and the IOTF references were used to classify the children sampled as overweight and obese. For the Pakistani reference, overweight and obesity were defined as BMI-for-age ≥ 85th percentile and BMI-for-age ≥ 95th percentile, respectively. Cohen's κ statistic was used to assess the agreement between the international references and local study population references in the classification of overweight/obesity. Results : The statistical estimates (%) of the participants for overweight and obesity varied according to the reference used: WHO (7.4% and 2.2%), CDC (4.9% and 2.1%), IOTF (5.2% and 2.0%) and Pakistan (8.8% and 6.0%), respectively; suggesting higher levels of overweight and obesity prevalence when local study references are used. The Kappa statistic shows a moderate to excellent agreement (κ ≥ 0.6) among three international references when classifying child overweight and obesity and poor agreement between local references and the WHO (0.45, 0.52), CDC (0.25, 0.50) and IOTF references (0.16, 0.31), for overweight and obesity, respectively. Conclusions : The results of the study showed a visible difference in the estimates of excess body weight after applying the WHO, CDC, IOTF and local BMI references to the study population. Based on the disparity results and poor agreement between international references and the local study reference, this study recommends using local BMI references in identifying children with overweight and obesity.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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