PMID- 17152504
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20100429
LR  - 20220310
IS  - 0254-6450 (Print)
IS  - 0254-6450 (Linking)
VI  - 27
IP  - 6
DP  - 2006 Jun
TI  - [Prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents in Beijing 
      in 2004].
PG  - 469-74
AB  - OBJECTIVE: To determine the current prevalence of overweight and obesity among 
      children and adolescents (2-18 years) in Beijing and its distribution by age, 
      gender and urban-rural residence. METHODS: As part of the Beijing Child and 
      Adolescent Metabolic Syndrome Study, a stratified cluster representative sample 
      of 23,422 children aged 0-18 years was selected. Anthropometric measures 
      including weight and height were collected from 21,198 subjects aged 2-18 years 
      from April to October in 2004. Overweight and obesity were defined according to 
      body mass index [BMI, weight(kg)/height(m2)] cutpoints. For national and 
      international comparisons, three sex-age-specific BMI criteria were used:1) The 
      BMI cutoffs recommended by the Chinese Working Group on Obesity for Children 
      (WGOC) aged 7-18 years; 2) The US 2000 CDC Growth Charts (CDC 2000) frac 34, the 
      85th and 95th percentiles; 3) The International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) 
      reference. RESULTS: The overall combined prevalence of overweight and obesity was 
      18.6% with obesity as 8.1% based on the CDC 2000 criteria, The figures were 17.4% 
      and 5.1% based on the IOTF criteria. According to the WGOC criteria, the combined 
      prevalence of obesity was 20.9% and 8.9% in children aged 7-18 years. The 
      combined prevalence was higher in school-age children (6-18 years) than in 
      preschool-age children (19.8% vs. 14.8%, based on the CDC 2000 criteria). Among 
      school-age children, the prevalence was higher in boys than in girls (26.7% vs. 
      16.5%), in urban than in rural areas (27.0% vs. 15.9%). However, these 
      differences were not observed in preschool-age children. It was estimated that 
      approximately 450 000 children from 2 through 18 years of age,were overweight or 
      obesity in Beijing. CONCLUSION: Data from our study indicated that one fifth of 
      the children and adolescents in Beijing were under overweight or obesity 
      situation which was the highest in the nation. Obesity among children and 
      adolescents in Beijing had already become a serious public health problem which 
      deserved greater attention.
FAU - Mi, Jie
AU  - Mi J
AD  - Department of Epidemiology, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing 100020, 
      China.
FAU - Cheng, Hong
AU  - Cheng H
FAU - Hou, Dong-qing
AU  - Hou DQ
FAU - Duan, Jia-li
AU  - Duan JL
FAU - Teng, Hong-hong
AU  - Teng HH
FAU - Wang, You-fa
AU  - Wang YF
LA  - chi
PT  - English Abstract
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - China
TA  - Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi
JT  - Zhonghua liu xing bing xue za zhi = Zhonghua liuxingbingxue zazhi
JID - 8208604
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Child
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - China/epidemiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Infant
MH  - Obesity/*epidemiology
MH  - Overweight/*epidemiology
MH  - Prevalence
EDAT- 2006/12/13 09:00
MHDA- 2010/04/30 06:00
CRDT- 2006/12/13 09:00
PHST- 2006/12/13 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/04/30 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2006/12/13 09:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Zhonghua Liu Xing Bing Xue Za Zhi. 2006 Jun;27(6):469-74.