PMID- 17194866
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20070201
LR  - 20181113
IS  - 1541-0048 (Electronic)
IS  - 0090-0036 (Print)
IS  - 0090-0036 (Linking)
VI  - 97
IP  - 2
DP  - 2007 Feb
TI  - Prevalence estimates of overweight and obesity in Cree preschool children in 
      northern Quebec according to international and US reference criteria.
PG  - 311-6
AB  - OBJECTIVES: We estimated the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Cree 
      Canadian children aged 5 years (n=1044) using international and US growth 
      references and examined the longitudinal tracking of weight categories between 
      ages 2 and 5 years (n=562). METHODS: Weight categories based on body mass index 
      (calculated from measured heights and weights) were derived from the 
      International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) and the Centers for Disease Control and 
      Prevention (CDC) references. RESULTS: According to the IOTF reference, 52.9% of 
      children were overweight (31.6%) or obese (21.3%) whereas with the CDC reference, 
      64.9% were overweight (27.5%) or obese (37.4%). The IOTF and CDC references 
      provided dissimilar tracking of weight categories. Based on the IOTF reference, 
      4.9% of the children who were normal weight at age 2 years were obese at age 5 
      years. Based on the CDC reference, 14.9% of children categorized as normal weight 
      at age 2 years were obese at age 5 years. CONCLUSIONS: The IOTF reference 
      provided more conservative estimates of obesity than the CDC reference, and 
      longitudinal analyses showed dissimilar tracking of weight categories with the 2 
      references. Public health responses to obesity prevalence estimates should be 
      made with awareness of methodological limitations.
FAU - Willows, Noreen D
AU  - Willows ND
AD  - Department of Agricultural, Food, and Nutritional Science, Faculty of 
      Agriculture, Forestry and Home Economics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 
      Canada. noreen.willows@ualberta.ca
FAU - Johnson, Melissa S
AU  - Johnson MS
FAU - Ball, Geoff D C
AU  - Ball GD
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20061228
PL  - United States
TA  - Am J Public Health
JT  - American journal of public health
JID - 1254074
SB  - IM
MH  - Body Mass Index
MH  - Body Weight/*ethnology
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Indians, North American/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Male
MH  - Medically Underserved Area
MH  - Obesity/epidemiology/*ethnology
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Quebec/epidemiology
MH  - Reference Values
MH  - Risk Assessment
MH  - Risk Factors
MH  - Rural Health/*statistics & numerical data
PMC - PMC1781400
EDAT- 2006/12/30 09:00
MHDA- 2007/02/03 09:00
PMCR- 2009/02/01
CRDT- 2006/12/30 09:00
PHST- 2006/12/30 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2007/02/03 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2006/12/30 09:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/02/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - AJPH.2005.073940 [pii]
AID - 0970311 [pii]
AID - 10.2105/AJPH.2005.073940 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Am J Public Health. 2007 Feb;97(2):311-6. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.073940. Epub 
      2006 Dec 28.