PMID- 20492539
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110512
LR  - 20220408
IS  - 1467-789X (Electronic)
IS  - 1467-7881 (Linking)
VI  - 12
IP  - 4
DP  - 2011 Apr
TI  - Defining overweight and obesity in pre-school children: IOTF reference or WHO 
      standard?
PG  - 295-300
LID - 10.1111/j.1467-789X.2010.00748.x [doi]
AB  - Two international datasets are used to define overweight and obesity in 
      pre-school children: the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) reference and 
      the WHO standard. This study compares the performance of the two datasets in 
      defining overweight and obesity in 24-60 months old children. This was done by 
      plotting the IOTF cut-offs against WHO curves and by comparing the prevalence of 
      overweight and obesity, as defined by the IOTF reference and by the WHO standard, 
      using 2001 data from the Czech Republic. The IOTF cut-off for overweight in 24-60 
      months old children goes from 1.7 to 1.1 z-scores on the WHO chart, and for 
      obesity it shifts with age from 2.7 to 2.2 z-scores. As a consequence, at 5 years 
      of age the prevalence of overweight in Czech girls is 3.4% using the WHO and 
      15.3% using the IOTF definition. These discrepancies are due to the choice of 
      cut-offs and to the different criteria used to select the sample for the IOTF 
      reference and the WHO standard. Research is urgently needed to identify, for the 
      WHO standard, BMI cut-offs associated with an increased risk of overweight and 
      obesity, and associated health outcomes later in life.
CI  - (c) 2010 The Authors. obesity reviews (c) 2010 International Association for the 
      Study of Obesity.
FAU - Monasta, L
AU  - Monasta L
AD  - Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute for Maternal and Child Health IRCCS 
      Burlo Garofolo, Trieste, Italy. monasta@burlo.trieste.it
FAU - Lobstein, T
AU  - Lobstein T
FAU - Cole, T J
AU  - Cole TJ
FAU - Vignerova, J
AU  - Vignerova J
FAU - Cattaneo, A
AU  - Cattaneo A
LA  - eng
GR  - G0400546/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom
GR  - G0700961/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - England
TA  - Obes Rev
JT  - Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the 
      Study of Obesity
JID - 100897395
SB  - IM
MH  - Body Mass Index
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Obesity/*classification/diagnosis/epidemiology
MH  - Overweight/*classification/diagnosis/epidemiology
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - *Reference Standards
MH  - Sex Factors
MH  - World Health Organization
EDAT- 2010/05/25 06:00
MHDA- 2011/05/13 06:00
CRDT- 2010/05/25 06:00
PHST- 2010/05/25 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/05/25 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/05/13 06:00 [medline]
AID - OBR748 [pii]
AID - 10.1111/j.1467-789X.2010.00748.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Obes Rev. 2011 Apr;12(4):295-300. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-789X.2010.00748.x.