PMID- 16436097
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20070517
LR  - 20060126
IS  - 1467-7881 (Print)
IS  - 1467-7881 (Linking)
VI  - 7
IP  - 1
DP  - 2006 Feb
TI  - Prevalence of obesity in Sweden.
PG  - 1-3
AB  - Although the prevalence of obesity in Sweden still is low in an international 
      perspective, the development during the last decades is alarming in adults, 
      adolescents and children alike. The prevalence of obesity [body mass index (BMI) 
      > 30 kg m-2] in adults has doubled during the last two decades and is now 
      approximately 10% in both men and women, according to estimates based on 
      self-reported BMI from repeated random samples of the population. However, 
      prevalence estimates based on measured BMI from the WHO MONICA study indicate 
      that the self-reported data result in underestimates. In military conscripts, the 
      prevalence of obesity (BMI > 30 kg m-2) almost quadrupled to 3.2% from 1971 to 
      1995, while the overweight fraction (BMI > 25 kg m-2) more than doubled to 16.3%. 
      The development in younger age groups seems to be similar; the prevalence of 
      overweight [International Obesity Task Force (IOTF)/Cole] in children aged 10 
      years in Gothenburg has doubled to 18% (2.9% obese) during the last decade, and 
      similar figures have been reported in other studies. However, most reports on 
      childhood overweight stem from the larger metropolitan areas, and hence may be 
      underestimates because of the urban-rural influence on obesity-status. Recent 
      data from non-urban areas in the northern part of Sweden estimate the prevalence 
      of overweight (BMI > 20 kg m-2) in 10-year-olds to above 30%. In the most 
      comprehensive study in children, including both rural and urban areas, BMI was 
      measured among all children aged 10 years (n = 5517; 92.7% of the population) in 
      the county of Ostergotland, and the prevalence of overweight (IOTF/Cole) was 22% 
      in both boys and girls, of which 4% and 5% were obese respectively.
FAU - Neovius, M
AU  - Neovius M
AD  - Obesity unit, Institution for Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital (HS), 
      Stockholm, Sweden. martin.neovius@ki.se
FAU - Janson, A
AU  - Janson A
FAU - Rossner, S
AU  - Rossner S
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
PL  - England
TA  - Obes Rev
JT  - Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the 
      Study of Obesity
JID - 100897395
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Age Distribution
MH  - Aged
MH  - Child
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Obesity/*epidemiology
MH  - *Overweight
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Sweden/epidemiology
RF  - 15
EDAT- 2006/01/27 09:00
MHDA- 2007/05/18 09:00
CRDT- 2006/01/27 09:00
PHST- 2006/01/27 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2007/05/18 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2006/01/27 09:00 [entrez]
AID - OBR190 [pii]
AID - 10.1111/j.1467-789x.2006.00190.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Obes Rev. 2006 Feb;7(1):1-3. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-789x.2006.00190.x.