PMID- 20940275
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20120322
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 1741-3850 (Electronic)
IS  - 1741-3842 (Linking)
VI  - 33
IP  - 3
DP  - 2011 Sep
TI  - Nutritional status of school-aged children of Buenos Aires, Argentina: data using 
      three references.
PG  - 403-11
LID - 10.1093/pubmed/fdq079 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: Childhood overweight has been reported in developing countries. The 
      World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended a standardized classification 
      system in order to facilitate comparison across countries and studies. This study 
      aims to assess the prevalence of overweight, obesity and thinness in a group of 
      10-11-year-old children using three references [the Center for Disease Control 
      (CDC) 2000, the the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) 2000 and the WHO, 
      2007]. METHODS: A representative sample of 1588 children (771 boys and 817 girls) 
      resulted from the randomization of 80 public schools from Buenos Aires. RESULTS: 
      The prevalence of overweight, including obesity, for the whole sample was 35.5, 
      27.9 and 27.9%, respectively, depending on the reference used. For overweight, no 
      gender differences were observed regardless of the reference used. Obesity was 
      significantly more frequent among boys, and this remained consistent for the 
      three references. Thinness frequency was 1.6 and 2.5% for the boys and 2.7 and 
      4.5% for the girls when considering the WHO and CDC cut-off points, respectively, 
      and frequency increased in both boys and girls for each age group. CONCLUSION: 
      There is a high prevalence of overweight and obese cases among school-aged 
      children of Buenos Aires regardless of the reference used. Epidemiological data 
      provided by this study suggests the urgent need to design preventive 
      interventions.
FAU - Kovalskys, I
AU  - Kovalskys I
AD  - International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) Argentina, Buenos Aires 1509, 
      Argentina. ikovalskys@ilsi.org.ar
FAU - Rausch Herscovici, C
AU  - Rausch Herscovici C
FAU - De Gregorio, M J
AU  - De Gregorio MJ
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20101012
PL  - England
TA  - J Public Health (Oxf)
JT  - Journal of public health (Oxford, England)
JID - 101188638
SB  - IM
MH  - Anthropometry
MH  - Argentina/epidemiology
MH  - Body Mass Index
MH  - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.
MH  - Child
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - *Nutritional Status
MH  - Obesity/*epidemiology
MH  - Overweight/*epidemiology
MH  - *Population
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Reference Standards
MH  - Sex Factors
MH  - Thinness/*epidemiology
MH  - United States
MH  - World Health Organization
EDAT- 2010/10/14 06:00
MHDA- 2012/03/23 06:00
CRDT- 2010/10/14 06:00
PHST- 2010/10/14 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/10/14 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/03/23 06:00 [medline]
AID - fdq079 [pii]
AID - 10.1093/pubmed/fdq079 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Public Health (Oxf). 2011 Sep;33(3):403-11. doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdq079. Epub 
      2010 Oct 12.