Secular trends in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Sicilian schoolchildren aged 11-13 years during the last decade

Autor:	Paola Rossetti, Lavinia La Delfa, Sebastiano Squatrito, Cristina Parrino, Roberto Baratta, Lucia Frittitta, Riccardo Vigneri, Nadia La Spina
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Male Rural Population Pediatrics Anatomy and Physiology Urban Population Epidemiology Cross-sectional study Overweight Global Health Body Mass Index Cohort Studies Endocrinology Pediatric Endocrinology Prevalence Clinical Epidemiology Child Pediatric Epidemiology Sicily Multidisciplinary Age Factors Child Health Epidemiology of Aging Socioeconomic Aspects of Health Cohort Medicine Female Public Health Waist Circumference medicine.symptom Behavioral and Social Aspects of Health Environmental Health Research Article Cohort study medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Clinical Research Design Science Childhood obesity Thinness medicine Humans Obesity Students Nutrition business.industry Body Weight Odds ratio medicine.disease Social Epidemiology Cross-Sectional Studies Physiological Processes Energy Metabolism business Body mass index Demography
Zdroj:	PLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 4, p e34551 (2012) PLoS ONE Europe PubMed Central
ISSN:	1932-6203
Popis:	The present study evaluates trends in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in relation to gender and area of residence between two cohorts of students aged 11–13 years in Sicily. The analysis was performed on 1,839 schoolchildren, with 924 and 915 children being studied in 1999–2001 and 2009–2010, respectively. The children who were enrolled during 2009–2010 had significantly higher body mass indexes (BMI), BMI z-scores, and waist circumferences than the children who were studied during 1999–2001 (p
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