PMID- 18157341
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20080619
LR  - 20190823
IS  - 0102-311X (Print)
IS  - 0102-311X (Linking)
VI  - 23
IP  - 12
DP  - 2007 Dec
TI  - Diagnosis of overweight and obesity in adolescents from the 1993 Pelotas Birth 
      Cohort Study, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil: comparison of two diagnostic 
      criteria.
PG  - 2993-9
AB  - Various cut-off points for body mass index have been proposed to assess 
      nutritional status in adolescents. The aim of this study was to compare two 
      methods for evaluating overweight and obesity. In 2004-5, 4,452 adolescents from 
      the 1993 Pelotas (Brazil) birth cohort study were evaluated, representing 87.5% 
      of the original cohort. Overweight and obesity were evaluated using the methods 
      proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Obesity Task 
      Force (IOTF). Prevalence of overweight was similar when comparing the two methods 
      (WHO: 23.2%; IOTF: 21.6%). Prevalence of obesity was higher according to the WHO 
      criterion (total sample: 11.6%; boys: 15.1%; girls: 8.2%) as compared to IOTF 
      (total sample: 5.0%; boys: 5.6%; girls: 4.4%). The kappa statistic was around 0.9 
      for determining overweight and 0.4 for obesity. The IOTF classification showed 
      high specificity in comparison to the WHO criterion for determining overweight 
      and obesity. However, sensitivity was high for overweight but low for obesity. 
      Our data show that the IOTF classification underestimates the prevalence of 
      obesity in early adolescence.
FAU - Vieira, Maria de Fatima Alves
AU  - Vieira Mde F
AD  - Faculdade de Nutricao, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, RS 96030, 
      Brazil. fvieira@epidemio-ufpel.org.br
FAU - Araujo, Cora Luiza Pavin
AU  - Araujo CL
FAU - Neutzling, Marilda Borges
AU  - Neutzling MB
FAU - Hallal, Pedro Curi
AU  - Hallal PC
FAU - Menezes, Ana Maria Baptista
AU  - Menezes AM
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - Brazil
TA  - Cad Saude Publica
JT  - Cadernos de saude publica
JID - 8901573
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - *Body Mass Index
MH  - Brazil/epidemiology
MH  - Child
MH  - Cohort Studies
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Mass Screening/*methods
MH  - *Models, Statistical
MH  - Nutritional Status
MH  - Obesity/*diagnosis/epidemiology
MH  - Observer Variation
MH  - Overweight/diagnosis
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Sensitivity and Specificity
MH  - Sex Distribution
MH  - Sex Factors
MH  - Socioeconomic Factors
EDAT- 2007/12/25 09:00
MHDA- 2008/06/20 09:00
CRDT- 2007/12/25 09:00
PHST- 2006/04/04 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2007/02/23 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2007/12/25 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/06/20 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2007/12/25 09:00 [entrez]
AID - S0102-311X2007001200020 [pii]
AID - 10.1590/s0102-311x2007001200020 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Cad Saude Publica. 2007 Dec;23(12):2993-9. doi: 10.1590/s0102-311x2007001200020.