PMID- 18664311
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20090716
LR  - 20190918
IS  - 1368-9800 (Print)
IS  - 1368-9800 (Linking)
VI  - 12
IP  - 5
DP  - 2009 May
TI  - Trends in overweight and obesity in pre-school children in urban areas of Ho Chi 
      Minh City, Vietnam, from 2002 to 2005.
PG  - 702-9
LID - 10.1017/S1368980008003017 [doi]
AB  - OBJECTIVE: To assess the trends in overweight and obesity in pre-school children 
      in urban areas of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam, over the period 2002 to 2005. 
      DESIGN: Two cross-sectional studies were conducted in 2002 and 2005. Multistage 
      cluster sampling was used in both surveys to select the subjects. 
      Sociodemographic information was collected using a self-administered 
      questionnaire given to parents in 2002 and using an interview-administered 
      questionnaire to parents in 2005. Weight and height were measured using the same 
      standard methods in both surveys. BMI (kg/m2) was calculated and 
      overweight/obesity was defined using the age- and sex-specific BMI cut-off points 
      proposed by the International Obesity Taskforce. SUBJECTS AND SETTING: Children 
      aged 4 to 5 years, attending pre-schools in urban areas of HCMC, Vietnam, in 2002 
      (n 492) and 2005 (n 670). RESULTS: The prevalence of overweight and obesity 
      almost doubled from 2002 to 2005 (21.4 % and 36.8 %, respectively). The increase 
      was more evident in less wealthy districts than in wealthy districts. The 
      proportion of boys classified as obese in 2005 (22.5 %) was three times that in 
      2002 (6.9 %). CONCLUSION: The prevalence of overweight and obesity has increased 
      rapidly in children aged 4 to 5 years in urban areas, and especially in less 
      wealthy districts, over a 3-year period. These results signal an urgent need for 
      prevention programmes to control and reverse this rapid upward trend in 
      overweight and obesity in young children in HCMC.
FAU - Dieu, Huynh Thi Thu
AU  - Dieu HT
AD  - Nutrition Centre of Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. 
      thudieuhuynh@yahoo.com
FAU - Dibley, Michael J
AU  - Dibley MJ
FAU - Sibbritt, David W
AU  - Sibbritt DW
FAU - Hanh, Tran Thi Minh
AU  - Hanh TT
LA  - eng
GR  - 073153/Z/03/Z/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20080729
PL  - England
TA  - Public Health Nutr
JT  - Public health nutrition
JID - 9808463
SB  - IM
MH  - Body Height
MH  - Body Mass Index
MH  - Body Weight
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Logistic Models
MH  - Male
MH  - Obesity/epidemiology
MH  - Overweight/*epidemiology
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Schools
MH  - Sex Distribution
MH  - Social Class
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Thinness/epidemiology
MH  - Urban Population
MH  - Vietnam/epidemiology
EDAT- 2008/07/31 09:00
MHDA- 2009/07/17 09:00
CRDT- 2008/07/31 09:00
PHST- 2008/07/31 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2009/07/17 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2008/07/31 09:00 [entrez]
AID - S1368980008003017 [pii]
AID - 10.1017/S1368980008003017 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Public Health Nutr. 2009 May;12(5):702-9. doi: 10.1017/S1368980008003017. Epub 
      2008 Jul 29.