PMID- 18171443
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20080403
LR  - 20080103
IS  - 1365-2214 (Electronic)
IS  - 0305-1862 (Linking)
VI  - 34
IP  - 1
DP  - 2008 Jan
TI  - Thinness, overweight and obesity in a national sample of Iranian children and 
      adolescents: CASPIAN Study.
PG  - 44-54
LID - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2007.00744.x [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: This study was conducted to assess the national prevalence of 
      different grades of nutritional status (underweight, normal weight, overweight 
      and obesity) among Iranian school-students and to compare the prevalence of 
      overweight and obesity using three different sets of criteria. METHODS: This 
      cross-sectional national survey was conducted on a representative sample of 21 
      111 school students including 10 253 boys (48.6%) and 10 858 girls (51.4%) aged 
      6-18 years, selected by multistage random cluster sampling from urban (84.6%) and 
      rural (15.4%) areas of 23 provinces in Iran The percentage of subjects in the 
      corresponding body mass index (BMI) categories of the Centers of Disease Control 
      and Prevention (CDC), the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) and the 
      obtained national percentiles were assessed and compared. RESULTS: There was no 
      gender differences in BMI, but was higher in boys living in urban than in rural 
      areas (18.4 +/- 3.88 vs. 17.86 +/- 3.66 kg/m(2) respectively, P < 0.05). The 
      prevalence of underweight was 13.9% (8.1% of boys and 5.7% of girls) according to 
      the CDC percentiles, and 5% (2.6% of boys and 2.4% of girls) according to the 
      obtained percentiles. According to the CDC, IOTF and national cut-offs, the 
      prevalence of overweight was 8.82%, 11.3% and 10.1% respectively; and the 
      prevalence of obesity was 4.5%, 2.9% and 4.79% respectively. The prevalence of 
      overweight was highest (10.98%) in the 12-year-old group and that of obesity 
      (7.81%) in the 6-year-old group. The kappa correlation coefficient was 0.71 
      between the CDC and IOTF criteria, 0.64 between IOTF and national cut-offs, and 
      0.77 between CDC and national cut-offs. CONCLUSIONS: The findings of this study 
      warrant the necessity of paying special attention to monitoring of the time 
      trends in child obesity based on uniform definitions, as well as to design 
      programmes to prevent and control associated factors.
FAU - Kelishadi, R
AU  - Kelishadi R
AD  - Preventive Pediatric Cardiology Department, Deputy for Research, Isfahan 
      Cardiovascular Research Centre (WHO-Collaborating Centre in EMR), Isfahan 
      University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. kroya@aap.net
FAU - Ardalan, G
AU  - Ardalan G
FAU - Gheiratmand, R
AU  - Gheiratmand R
FAU - Majdzadeh, R
AU  - Majdzadeh R
FAU - Hosseini, M
AU  - Hosseini M
FAU - Gouya, M M
AU  - Gouya MM
FAU - Razaghi, E M
AU  - Razaghi EM
FAU - Delavari, A
AU  - Delavari A
FAU - Motaghian, M
AU  - Motaghian M
FAU - Barekati, H
AU  - Barekati H
FAU - Mahmoud-Arabi, M S
AU  - Mahmoud-Arabi MS
FAU - Lock, K
AU  - Lock K
CN  - Caspian Study Group
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Multicenter Study
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - England
TA  - Child Care Health Dev
JT  - Child: care, health and development
JID - 7602632
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Age Factors
MH  - *Body Mass Index
MH  - Child
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Iran/epidemiology
MH  - Male
MH  - Obesity/*epidemiology
MH  - Overweight/epidemiology
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Thinness/*epidemiology
EDAT- 2008/01/04 09:00
MHDA- 2008/04/04 09:00
CRDT- 2008/01/04 09:00
PHST- 2008/01/04 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/04/04 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2008/01/04 09:00 [entrez]
AID - CCH744 [pii]
AID - 10.1111/j.1365-2214.2007.00744.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Child Care Health Dev. 2008 Jan;34(1):44-54. doi: 
      10.1111/j.1365-2214.2007.00744.x.