PMID- 10419414
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19990722
LR  - 20180330
IS  - 0002-9165 (Print)
IS  - 0002-9165 (Linking)
VI  - 70
IP  - 1
DP  - 1999 Jul
TI  - Introduction: the use of body mass index to assess obesity in children.
PG  - 123S-5S
AB  - The International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) was established in 1994 to address 
      the increase in the worldwide prevalence of obesity. The goals of the IOTF are to 
      1) raise awareness in the population and among governments that obesity is a 
      serious medical condition, 2) develop policy recommendations for a coherent and 
      effective global approach to the management and prevention of obesity, and 3) 
      implement appropriate strategies to manage and prevent obesity on a population 
      basis worldwide. To assess the global prevalence of obesity in children and 
      adolescents, the IOTF convened a workshop on childhood obesity to determine the 
      most appropriate measurement to assess obesity in populations of and adolescents 
      around the world. At the workshop, a variety of issues related to this problem 
      were considered--including the best measure of fatness, the effect of application 
      of a variety of existing standards on the prevalence of obesity in the same 
      population, and the role of factors such as visceral adiposity and natural 
      history in the definition of obesity. This article and those that follow 
      represent the information presented at the workshop. The workshop concluded that 
      the body mass index (BMI; in kg/m2) offered a reasonable measure with which to 
      assess fatness in children and adolescents and that the standards used to 
      identify overweight and obesity in children and adolescents should agree with the 
      standards used to identify grade 1 and grade 2 overweight (BMI of 25 and 30, 
      respectively) in adults.
FAU - Dietz, W H
AU  - Dietz WH
AD  - Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity,National Center for Chronic Disease 
      Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 
      Atlanta, GA 30341, USA. wcd4@cdc.gov
FAU - Bellizzi, M C
AU  - Bellizzi MC
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
PL  - United States
TA  - Am J Clin Nutr
JT  - The American journal of clinical nutrition
JID - 0376027
SB  - IM
MH  - Adipose Tissue
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Body Composition
MH  - *Body Mass Index
MH  - Child
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Obesity/*diagnosis/epidemiology
RF  - 14
EDAT- 1999/07/27 00:00
MHDA- 1999/07/27 00:01
CRDT- 1999/07/27 00:00
PHST- 1999/07/27 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1999/07/27 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1999/07/27 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1093/ajcn/70.1.123s [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Am J Clin Nutr. 1999 Jul;70(1):123S-5S. doi: 10.1093/ajcn/70.1.123s.