PMID- 18093083
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20080605
LR  - 20151119
IS  - 1467-789X (Electronic)
IS  - 1467-7881 (Linking)
VI  - 9
IP  - 3
DP  - 2008 May
TI  - Overweight and obesity in preadolescent children and their parents in Cyprus: 
      prevalence and associated socio-demographic factors - the CYKIDS study.
PG  - 185-93
AB  - Obesity status differs by socio-demographic factors, but data for Cyprus are 
      scarce. An in-depth understanding of this relationship may be useful in designing 
      public health programmes. The objective of the present study is to estimate 
      overweight and obesity (OW/OB) prevalence among children and adults in Cyprus and 
      identify related socio-demographic variables. National cross-sectional study of 
      1140 children (mean age 11 +/- 0.98 years) and their parents (mean age 42.5 +/- 
      5.8 years, total n = 1954). Obesity was defined according to the World Health 
      Organization classification for adults and according to IOTF (International 
      Obesity Task Force) criteria for children. Overweight and obesity prevalence 
      among girls was 18.3% and 2.9%, respectively, while in boys, 19.0% and 6.0%. 
      Among parents, OW/OB prevalence was, respectively, women, 22.6% and 5.8%; men, 
      47.1% and 14.1%. Logistic regression analysis in both children and adults 
      revealed that the most important socio-demographic predictors of obesity status 
      are factors of built environment. Higher prevalence of OW/OB was observed in 
      adults living in a house as opposed to an apartment, in older adults, in younger 
      children, and in men, irrespective of age. There is a severe obesity problem in 
      the Cypriot population; almost one in two adults and at least one in four 
      preadolescent children are overweight or obese. Prevalence of OW/OB was related 
      to socio-demographic factors, especially among adults and women.
FAU - Lazarou, C
AU  - Lazarou C
AD  - Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece. 
      stalolaz@logosnet.cy.net
FAU - Panagiotakos, D B
AU  - Panagiotakos DB
FAU - Panayiotou, G
AU  - Panayiotou G
FAU - Matalas, A-L
AU  - Matalas AL
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20071219
PL  - England
TA  - Obes Rev
JT  - Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the 
      Study of Obesity
JID - 100897395
RN  - 0 (Gold Alloys)
RN  - 3M4G523W1G (Silver)
RN  - 55964-89-1 (Revalloy)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Anthropometry/methods
MH  - Body Mass Index
MH  - Child
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Cyprus/epidemiology
MH  - Female
MH  - Gold Alloys
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Obesity/*epidemiology
MH  - Overweight/*epidemiology
MH  - *Parents
MH  - Population Surveillance/methods
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Sex Factors
MH  - Silver
MH  - Socioeconomic Factors
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
EDAT- 2007/12/21 09:00
MHDA- 2008/06/06 09:00
CRDT- 2007/12/21 09:00
PHST- 2007/12/21 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/06/06 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2007/12/21 09:00 [entrez]
AID - OBR461 [pii]
AID - 10.1111/j.1467-789X.2007.00461.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Obes Rev. 2008 May;9(3):185-93. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-789X.2007.00461.x. Epub 2007 
      Dec 19.