PMID- 11894741
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20021104
LR  - 20161124
IS  - 0939-4753 (Print)
IS  - 0939-4753 (Linking)
VI  - 11
IP  - 4 Suppl
DP  - 2001 Aug
TI  - The BRAVO project: screening for childhood obesity in a primary school setting.
PG  - 103-8
AB  - BACKGROUND AND AIM: The prevalence of childhood obesity is increasing worldwide, 
      raising a number of public health concerns. First, childhood obesity is a strong 
      predictor of adult obesity; second, the low long term success rate and the high 
      social cost of the treatment of obesity suggest that attention should be paid to 
      the prevention of obesity early in childhood. The objective of the present study 
      was to evaluate dietary habits and anthropometric factors in a sample of 
      schoolchildren aged 6-12 years living in Southern Italy in the framework of an 
      ongoing prospective study aimed at childhood obesity prevention. METHODS AND 
      RESULTS: The BRAVO Project is carried out in co-operation with the school staff 
      and is a part of an educational program on nutrition for the schoolchildren and 
      their families. During the first phase of the study, the prevalence of overweight 
      and obesity was evaluated in 363 children adopting the criteria for definition of 
      childhood obesity recently proposed by the International Obesity Task Force 
      (IOTF). The main result of this study was that in our cohort an exceedingly high 
      risk of becoming overweight in adult age was observed for any one-year age class. 
      CONCLUSIONS: The results of the present study confirmed the trend toward an 
      increasing prevalence of childhood obesity observed in other Western countries. 
      Moreover, out data--though preliminary--suggest that the large scale involvement 
      of primary school in screening programs could represent an effective preventive 
      strategy against the increased risk of childhood obesity.
FAU - Barba, G
AU  - Barba G
AD  - Institute of Food Science and Technology, National Research Council of Italy, 
      Avellino, Italy. gbarba@isa.av.cnr.it
FAU - Giacco, R
AU  - Giacco R
FAU - Clemente, G
AU  - Clemente G
FAU - Venezia, A
AU  - Venezia A
FAU - Russo, P
AU  - Russo P
FAU - Grimaldi, C
AU  - Grimaldi C
FAU - Siani, A
AU  - Siani A
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis
JT  - Nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases : NMCD
JID - 9111474
SB  - IM
MH  - Anthropometry
MH  - Body Mass Index
MH  - Child
MH  - Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
MH  - Cohort Studies
MH  - Feeding Behavior
MH  - Female
MH  - Health Behavior
MH  - Humans
MH  - Italy/epidemiology
MH  - Male
MH  - *Mass Screening
MH  - *Obesity/diagnosis/epidemiology/prevention & control
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Preventive Medicine
MH  - Prospective Studies
MH  - Risk Factors
MH  - Schools
EDAT- 2002/03/16 10:00
MHDA- 2002/11/26 04:00
CRDT- 2002/03/16 10:00
PHST- 2002/03/16 10:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2002/11/26 04:00 [medline]
PHST- 2002/03/16 10:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis. 2001 Aug;11(4 Suppl):103-8.