PMID- 20541233
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20101013
LR  - 20100708
IS  - 1476-5616 (Electronic)
IS  - 0033-3506 (Linking)
VI  - 124
IP  - 7
DP  - 2010 Jul
TI  - Prevalence of stunting, underweight, overweight and obesity in adolescents in 
      Velsk district, north-west Russia: a cross-sectional study using both 
      international and Russian growth references.
PG  - 392-7
LID - 10.1016/j.puhe.2010.03.017 [doi]
AB  - OBJECTIVES: To study the prevalence of stunting, underweight, overweight and 
      obesity among adolescents in a predominantly rural district in north-west Russia, 
      and to assess the agreement between the findings obtained using international and 
      Russian criteria. STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. METHODS: Body weight and 
      height were measured in 1066 schoolchildren aged 14-17 years, and body mass index 
      values were calculated. The prevalences of stunting, underweight, 
      overweight/obesity and obesity were estimated according to the World Health 
      Organization 2007 (WHO-2007), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2000 
      (CDC-2000), Russian and International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) criteria. 
      Pearson's Chi-squared test and McNemar's test were used to compare categorical 
      data. The agreement between estimates obtained using Russian and international 
      criteria was assessed by Cohen's kappa. RESULTS: The prevalence of stunting was 
      3.3%, 5.2% and 4.5% using the WHO-2007, CDC-2000 and Russian criteria, 
      respectively. The prevalence of overweight/obesity was 10.3%, 8.6%, 8.6% and 9.0% 
      as estimated using the WHO-2007, CDC-2000, Russian and IOTF criteria. The 
      corresponding proportions for obesity were 4.7%, 2.6%, 2.3% and 2.0%, and for 
      underweight were 3.6%, 3.1%, 2.3% and 1.8%. The Russian criteria led to lower 
      estimates for the prevalence of overweight/obesity in boys but not in girls. The 
      agreement between the estimates obtained using international and Russian criteria 
      varied between 0.3 and 0.9 in boys and between 0.2 and 1.0 in girls. CONCLUSIONS: 
      The prevalence of stunting was higher in the study population than in most 
      European countries, whereas the prevalences of underweight, overweight/obesity 
      and obesity were lower. The choice of reference population considerably 
      influences the prevalence estimates. Moreover, the agreement between the 
      estimates varies by gender.
CI  - Copyright 2010 The Royal Society for Public Health. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 
      All rights reserved.
FAU - Khasnutdinova, S L
AU  - Khasnutdinova SL
AD  - International School of Public Health, Northern State Medical University, 
      Arkhangelsk, Russia.
FAU - Grjibovski, A M
AU  - Grjibovski AM
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20100611
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Public Health
JT  - Public health
JID - 0376507
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - *Body Height
MH  - Body Mass Index
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Obesity/*epidemiology
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Reference Values
MH  - Rural Population
MH  - Russia/epidemiology
MH  - Thinness/*epidemiology
EDAT- 2010/06/15 06:00
MHDA- 2010/10/14 06:00
CRDT- 2010/06/15 06:00
PHST- 2009/07/01 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2010/02/16 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2010/03/18 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2010/06/15 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/06/15 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/10/14 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0033-3506(10)00093-4 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.puhe.2010.03.017 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Public Health. 2010 Jul;124(7):392-7. doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2010.03.017. Epub 2010 
      Jun 11.