Prevalence of overweight and obesity and anthropometric reference centiles for Albanian children and adolescents living in four Balkan nation-states

Autor: Andi Spahi, Juel Jarani, Anders Grøntved, Florian Muca, Jakob Tarp
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
Male
public health monitoring
Endocrinology
Diabetes and Metabolism
Kosovo
Overweight
Macedonia (Republic)/epidemiology
Body Mass Index
0302 clinical medicine
Endocrinology
Reference Values
Prevalence
030212 general & internal medicine
Child
education.field_of_study
anthropometry
Waist Circumference/physiology
Age Factors
Republic of North Macedonia
Montenegro
Albania
Female
Waist Circumference
medicine.symptom
medicine.medical_specialty
Montenegro/epidemiology
Waist
Adolescent
Population
Developing country
030209 endocrinology & metabolism
Overweight/epidemiology
03 medical and health sciences
medicine
Humans
Kosovo/epidemiology
survey
Obesity
education
Albania/epidemiology
business.industry
Public health
Anthropometry
Obesity/epidemiology
medicine.disease
reference centiles
LMS
Cross-Sectional Studies
Pediatrics
Perinatology and Child Health
business
Body mass index
Demography
Zdroj: Tarp, J, Jarani, J, Muca, F, Spahi, A & Grøntved, A 2018, ' Prevalence of overweight and obesity and anthropometric reference centiles for Albanian children and adolescents living in four Balkan nation-states ', Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, vol. 31, no. 11, pp. 1199-1206 . https://doi.org/10.1515/jpem-2018-0253
DOI: 10.1515/jpem-2018-0253
Popis: Background The extent of the obesity epidemic among youth is an important public health statistic which provides an indication of the future burden of non-communicable diseases. Many developing countries, including Albania, do not have systematic and repeated monitoring systems in operation. Methods The Balkan Survey of Inactivity in Children study is a population-based cross-sectional survey including Albanian children living in the four Balkan nation-states of Albania, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia and Montenegro. In total, 19,850 children from 49 schools were approached. The LMS method was used to provide body mass index (BMI), height, weight and waist circumference reference centiles for boys and girls. The World Health Organisation (WHO) and International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) age- and sex-specific BMI cut-points were applied to evaluate adiposity levels. Results A sample of 18,460 participants aged 6–16 years old was available for creation of the BMI for age and sex reference centiles. The prevalence of overweight (including obesity) in the full sample was 21% (95% CI: 20%–21%) according to IOTF cut-off points and 28% (95% CI: 28%–29%) at WHO cut-off points. Overweight/obesity levels where higher in boys than in girls irrespective of the cut-off points applied (p Conclusions Overweight/obesity is highly prevalent in Albanian children and adolescents. The apparent sex and country differences may inform public health actions.
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