An assessment of Body Mass Index and sensitive period for overweight development in Macao students at primary school age
| Autor: | Fan Huang, Patrick Ip, Rudolph Leon Van Niekerk, Walter King Yan Ho, Patrick Chan, Md. Dilsad Ahmed, Chi Ian Leong, João Silva, Nikon Chan, Jessica Chen |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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060101 anthropology
Health (social science) School age child business.industry school-age children 030209 endocrinology & metabolism body mass index 06 humanities and the arts Overweight GN1-890 weight status 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Primary (astronomy) Anthropology medicine 0601 history and archaeology medicine.symptom business Body mass index Period (music) Demography |
| Zdroj: | Anthropological Review, Vol 82, Iss 1, Pp 29-41 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 2083-4594 |
| Popis: | The concomitant risk of physical inactivity and sedentary lifestyle development causing various non-communicable diseases is recognized worldwide. Therefore, development of strategies to form a concrete public health policy overcoming this problem is most important. This study observed the distribution and changes of Body Mass Index (BMI) over six years among boys and girls. Data on children height and weight and their BMI were collected. A total of 5369 (3368 male and 2001 female) children were recruited from 10 schools in Macao. The children were 6 years old in 2008 and turned 11 in 2013. Statistical analyses involved descriptive statistics, t-test, and a Chi-squared test. The findings indicated greater BMI among males than females across all age at the 0.05 level of significance, and the ages of 8 and 9 seemed to be a sensitive period for an increase in overweight and obesity. The results indicate the need to have focused strategies and structured interventions for males at the critical ages from 8 to 9 years. |
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