Age- and weight group-specific weight gain patterns in children and adolescents during the 15 years before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
| Autor: | Christoph Beger, Tanja Poulain, Antje Körner, Ruth Gausche, Mandy Vogel, Christof Meigen, Wieland Kiess, Mandy Geserick, Roland Pfäffle, Eberhard Keller |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Pediatric Obesity Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Adolescent Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Medicine (miscellaneous) Weight Gain Childhood obesity Article Odds Body Mass Index Germany Pandemic medicine Humans Registries Obesity Child Pandemics Nutrition and Dietetics business.industry Specific weight Weight change COVID-19 Infant medicine.disease Risk factors Child Preschool Quarantine Female medicine.symptom business Weight gain Demography |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Obesity (2005) |
| ISSN: | 1476-5497 0307-0565 |
| Popis: | Background/Objectives There is a concern that measures aiming to limit a further spread of COVID-19, e.g., school closures and social distancing, cause an aggravation of the childhood obesity epidemic. Therefore, we compared BMI trends during the 15 years before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Subjects/Methods To assess the change in weight dynamics during the first months of COVID-19, we compared the trends of 3-month change in BMI-SDS (ΔBMI-SDS) and the proportions of children showing a high positive (HPC) or high negative (HNC) weight change between 2005 and 2019 and the respective changes from 2019 (pre-pandemic) to 2020 (after the onset of anti-pandemic measures) in more than 150,000 children (9689 during the pandemic period). The period of 3 months corresponds approximately to the first lockdown period in Germany. Results During the COVID-19 pandemic, we found a substantial weight gain across all weight and age groups, reflected by an increase in the 3-month change in BMI-SDS (β = 0.05, p p p β = 0.001 (p high_pos = 1.01 (p high_neg = 0.99 (p β = 0.02, ORhigh_pos = 1.14, and ORhigh_pos = 0.85 over the whole period 2005–2019. Alarmingly, both the long-term and the short-term effects were most pronounced in the obese subgroup. Conclusions There are positive dynamics in different measures of weight change, indicating a positive trend in weight gain patterns, especially within the group of children with obesity. These dynamics are likely to be escalated by COVID-19-related measures. Thus, they may lead to a significant further aggravation of the childhood obesity pandemic. |
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