PMID- 17598389
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20070720
LR  - 20220331
IS  - 0350-6134 (Print)
IS  - 0350-6134 (Linking)
VI  - 31
IP  - 1
DP  - 2007 Mar
TI  - Body mass index, prevalence of overweight and obesity in Lithuanian children and 
      adolescents, 1985-2002.
PG  - 109-21
AB  - The study provides the body mass index (BMI), the prevalence of overweight (OW) 
      and obesity (OB) in Lithuanian children and adolescents, 1985-2002. In the 
      2000-2002 more than 9000 schoolchildren of 7-18 years old were investigated in 
      the 5 biggest towns and surrounding settlements of Lithuania. These data were 
      compared with the 1985 data. The prevalence of OW and OB was estimated using the 
      International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) cut-off points. The prevalence of OW in 
      Lithuanian children and adolescents was higher among younger schoolchildren in 
      comparison with older adolescents. OW was lower among the older girls in 
      comparison with the older boys: 4.60%-11.50%/4.80%0-13.62% in the 7-13 years 
      girls/boys, versus 1.50%-6.60%/3.90%-9.50% in the 14-18 years old girls/boys. The 
      prevalence of OW among younger Lithuanian adolescents did not change 
      significantly in the last 15 years, but it slightly decreased in older boys and 
      demonstrably diminished in older adolescent girls. In generally, the prevalence 
      of OW among Lithuanian adolescents is low in comparison with the prevalence of OW 
      in children from the other countries.
FAU - Tutkuviene, Janina
AU  - Tutkuviene J
AD  - Department of Anatomy, Histology and Anthropology, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius 
      University, Vilnius, Lithuania. janina.tutkuviene@mf.vu.lt
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Croatia
TA  - Coll Antropol
JT  - Collegium antropologicum
JID - 8003354
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - *Body Mass Index
MH  - Child
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Lithuania/epidemiology
MH  - Male
MH  - Obesity/*epidemiology
MH  - *Overweight
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Time Factors
EDAT- 2007/06/30 09:00
MHDA- 2007/07/21 09:00
CRDT- 2007/06/30 09:00
PHST- 2007/06/30 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2007/07/21 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2007/06/30 09:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Coll Antropol. 2007 Mar;31(1):109-21.