PMID- 17651494
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20070920
LR  - 20240414
IS  - 1471-2458 (Electronic)
IS  - 1471-2458 (Linking)
VI  - 7
DP  - 2007 Jul 25
TI  - Prevalence of obesity in preschool Greek children, in relation to parental 
      characteristics and region of residence.
PG  - 178
AB  - BACKGROUND: The aim of this retrospective cohort study was to record the 
      prevalence of overweight and obesity in relation to parental education level, 
      parental body mass index and region of residence, in preschool children in 
      Greece. METHODS: A total of 2374 children (1218 males and 1156 females) aged 1-5 
      years, stratified by parental educational level (Census 1999), were examined from 
      105 nurseries in five counties, from April 2003 to July 2004, Weight (kg) and 
      height (cm) were obtained and BMI (kg/m2) was calculated. Both the US Centers for 
      Disease Control (CDC) and the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) methods 
      were used to classify each child as "normal", "at risk of overweight" and 
      "overweight". Parental demographic characteristics, such as age and educational 
      level and parental anthropometrical data, such as stature and body weight, were 
      also recorded with the use of a specifically designed questionnaire. RESULTS: The 
      overall estimates of at risk of overweight and overweight using the CDC method 
      was 31.9%, 10.6 percentage points higher than the IOTF estimate of 21.3% and this 
      difference was significant (p < 0.001). Children with one obese parent had 91% 
      greater odds for being overweight compared to those with no obese parent, while 
      the likelihood for being overweight was 2.38 times greater for children with two 
      obese parents in the multivariate model. CONCLUSION: Both methods used to assess 
      prevalence of obesity have demonstrated that a high percentage of the preschool 
      children in our sample were overweight. Parental body mass index was also shown 
      to be an obesity risk factor in very young children.
FAU - Manios, Yiannis
AU  - Manios Y
AD  - Department of Nutrition & Dietetics, Harokopio University, 70 El, Venizelou Ave, 
      176 71 Kallithea, Athens, Greece. manios@hua.gr
FAU - Costarelli, Vassiliki
AU  - Costarelli V
FAU - Kolotourou, Maria
AU  - Kolotourou M
FAU - Kondakis, Katerina
AU  - Kondakis K
FAU - Tzavara, Chara
AU  - Tzavara C
FAU - Moschonis, George
AU  - Moschonis G
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20070725
PL  - England
TA  - BMC Public Health
JT  - BMC public health
JID - 100968562
SB  - IM
MH  - Body Mass Index
MH  - *Child Day Care Centers
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Educational Status
MH  - Female
MH  - Geography
MH  - Greece/epidemiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Infant
MH  - Male
MH  - Obesity/*epidemiology/prevention & control
MH  - Overweight/physiology
MH  - Parents/education
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Residence Characteristics/*classification
MH  - *Risk Assessment
MH  - Risk Factors
PMC - PMC1947968
EDAT- 2007/07/27 09:00
MHDA- 2007/09/21 09:00
PMCR- 2007/07/25
CRDT- 2007/07/27 09:00
PHST- 2006/10/20 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2007/07/25 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2007/07/27 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2007/09/21 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2007/07/27 09:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2007/07/25 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 1471-2458-7-178 [pii]
AID - 10.1186/1471-2458-7-178 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - BMC Public Health. 2007 Jul 25;7:178. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-178.