PMID- 19766416
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20091223
LR  - 20091013
IS  - 0398-7620 (Print)
IS  - 0398-7620 (Linking)
VI  - 57
IP  - 5
DP  - 2009 Oct
TI  - [Overweight prevalence in preadolescents, adolescents and young adults with 
      intellectual disability schooled in specialized institutions in Southeast of 
      France: An exploratory study].
PG  - 337-45
LID - 10.1016/j.respe.2009.05.003 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: Prevalence of obesity is growing worldwide, especially in the 
      population of adolescents with intellectual disability. Nevertheless, no study 
      has focused on this problem in France. The objective of this work was thus to 
      study body weight in French preadolescents, adolescents and young adults with 
      intellectual disability schooled in specialized institutions. METHODS: Four 
      hundred and twenty French participants with intellectual disability, aged 11 to 
      21, were included in the study. An epidemiological questionnaire was built and 
      distributed to 14 specialized institutions where the participants were schooled. 
      The following participants' characteristics were collected: age, sex, level of 
      disability, psychopathology, genetic disorder and medication. International 
      Obesity Task Force (IOTF) cut-off for adolescents and World Health Organisation 
      cut-off for adults based on body mass index were used to define preobesity and 
      obesity. Data were analysed with t-tests, analysis of variance and Chi(2) tests. 
      RESULTS: 30.2% of participants were overweight, including 9.5% exhibiting 
      obesity. Results showed that: girls were significantly more concerned by 
      preobesity than boys; individuals with Down's syndrome were significantly more 
      obese than those without genetic disorder; individuals taking psychotropic 
      medications were significantly more obese than those who did not; no difference 
      in prevalence could be identified regarding the level of intellectual disability 
      and the presence or not of pervasive developmental disorders. CONCLUSION: The 
      prevalences observed in this study are clearly higher than those observed in the 
      general population. This creates a supplementary handicap for the social 
      inclusion of this population. Specialized institutions should become aware of the 
      recent development of this secondary illness.
FAU - Begarie, J
AU  - Begarie J
AD  - Laboratoire EA 4206 << Conduites addictives, de performance et sante >>, 
      universite Montpellier-I, 34000 Montpellier, France. 
      jerome.begarie@etu.univ-montpl.fr
FAU - Maiano, C
AU  - Maiano C
FAU - Ninot, G
AU  - Ninot G
FAU - Azema, B
AU  - Azema B
LA  - fre
PT  - English Abstract
PT  - Journal Article
TT  - Prevalence du surpoids chez des preadolescents, adolescents et jeunes adultes 
      presentant une deficience intellectuelle scolarises dans les instituts 
      medicoeducatifs du Sud-est de la France : une etude exploratoire.
DEP - 20090918
PL  - France
TA  - Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique
JT  - Revue d'epidemiologie et de sante publique
JID - 7608039
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Disabled Children/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Female
MH  - France/epidemiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Overweight/*epidemiology
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Schools
MH  - Young Adult
EDAT- 2009/09/22 06:00
MHDA- 2009/12/24 06:00
CRDT- 2009/09/22 06:00
PHST- 2007/08/04 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2009/04/24 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2009/05/16 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2009/09/22 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/09/22 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2009/12/24 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0398-7620(09)00346-0 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.respe.2009.05.003 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique. 2009 Oct;57(5):337-45. doi: 
      10.1016/j.respe.2009.05.003. Epub 2009 Sep 18.