Anthropometric indices of school children and familiar risk factors
| Autor: | Ottavio Giampietro, Eleonora Virgone, Elena Matteucci, Elena Griesi, Debora Calvi, L. Carneglia |
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| Rok vydání: | 2002 |
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Male
Percentile Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Epidemiology media_common.quotation_subject Growth Overweight Risk profile Body Mass Index Reference Values Risk Factors Adverse health effect Humans Medicine Obesity Girl Child Life Style media_common Anthropometry business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Skinfold Thickness Cross-Sectional Studies Blood pressure Italy Socioeconomic Factors Multivariate Analysis Regression Analysis Female School health medicine.symptom business |
| Popis: | Overweight in adolescence predicts adverse health effects in adulthood. We carried out a primary school health program and assessed children's growth and body composition.Were screened 869 (448 M, 421 F) primary school children: height, weight, four skinfolds, and four circumferences were measured. A family-reported questionnaire was used to determine family composition, history, and lifestyle.Age was 118 +/- 5 months, BMI 18 +/- 3 kg/m(2). No difference by gender was observed as for BMI or blood pressure. Girls had higher skinfold thickness at the biceps (BCF), triceps (TCF), subscapular (SSF), and suprailiac (SIF) areas (P0.001), hip and thigh circumferences (P0.01), body fat percentage (P0.001). Boys had higher waist circumference (P0.01), waist/thigh ratio, and conicity index (P0.001). Offspring BMI was correlated with birth weight (P0.05), parental BMI and scholarship level (P0.001), children blood pressure (P0.001), and hours per day spent in television viewing (P0.01). Family history for diabetes was associated with higher BMI, SSF, waist circumference (P0.05), and upper thigh (P0.01). Family history for hypertension was associated with higher SSF/TCF ratio (P0.05).Three of 869 children had BMI30 kg/m(2) (2 boys and 1 girl), 33 had BMI25 kg/m(2) (17 boys and 16 girls). The percentages of children who could be considered overweight (BMI/=95(th) percentile of age- and sex-specific NHANES I reference data) were boys, 10.0%, and girls, 9.3%. Anthropometric and anamnestic data on child and family yield more accurate estimates of risk profile: fat distribution seems relevant for metabolic and cardiovascular disorders. |
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