PMID- 22608527
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20121105
LR  - 20120618
IS  - 1618-1301 (Electronic)
IS  - 0018-442X (Linking)
VI  - 63
IP  - 3
DP  - 2012 Jun
TI  - Frequency of under- and overweight among children and adolescents during the 
      economic transition in Poland.
PG  - 216-32
LID - 10.1016/j.jchb.2012.03.001 [doi]
AB  - The aim of this study is to examine the prevalence of underweight, overweight and 
      obesity, using International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) criteria, in four cohorts 
      of children and adolescents living in Poland in different economic eras: 
      communist economy (1977/1978), crisis of the 1980s (1987/1988), political and 
      economic transformation (1992/1994) and the free market economy (2002/2004). 
      Analysis was conducted on a database including 10,934 records for children of the 
      age 7-18 years. In Poland, in the last 26 years of economic and political 
      transformations, the epidemic of obesity was not noticed but the growing 
      incidence of children and adolescents with body mass deficit was observed 
      (p<0.0001) (20.2% of girls in 2002/2004 vs. 11.0% in 1977/1978 and 12.1% of boys 
      in 2002/2004 vs. 7.2% in 1977/1978). Lower parental education and a higher number 
      of children in a family resulted in a higher prevalence of underweight (odds 
      ratio [OR] fluctuated from 1.26 to 1.63). The social effects of the political 
      transformation in Poland significantly affected families with low socio-economic 
      status (SES), and especially more eco-sensitive boys. This result is opposite to 
      the trends observed in Western countries and makes an important contribution to 
      the current knowledge of the course of further changes in weight-to-height ratio 
      at a global scale.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2012 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
FAU - Zadzinska, E
AU  - Zadzinska E
AD  - Department of Anthropology, University of Lodz, 90-237 Lodz, Poland. 
      e.zadzinska@biol.uni.lodz.pl
FAU - Rosset, I
AU  - Rosset I
FAU - Koziel, S
AU  - Koziel S
FAU - Nawarycz, T
AU  - Nawarycz T
FAU - Borowska-Struginska, B
AU  - Borowska-Struginska B
FAU - Lorkiewicz, W
AU  - Lorkiewicz W
FAU - Ostrowska-Nawarycz, L
AU  - Ostrowska-Nawarycz L
FAU - Sitek, A
AU  - Sitek A
LA  - eng
PT  - Historical Article
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20120518
PL  - Germany
TA  - Homo
JT  - Homo : internationale Zeitschrift fur die vergleichende Forschung am Menschen
JID - 0374655
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Child
MH  - Cohort Studies
MH  - Female
MH  - History, 20th Century
MH  - History, 21st Century
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Obesity/economics/epidemiology/history
MH  - Overweight/economics/*epidemiology/history
MH  - Poland/epidemiology
MH  - Politics
MH  - Social Class/history
MH  - Socioeconomic Factors/history
MH  - Thinness/economics/*epidemiology/history
EDAT- 2012/05/23 06:00
MHDA- 2012/11/06 06:00
CRDT- 2012/05/22 06:00
PHST- 2011/02/28 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2012/03/01 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2012/05/22 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/05/23 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/11/06 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0018-442X(12)00024-8 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.jchb.2012.03.001 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Homo. 2012 Jun;63(3):216-32. doi: 10.1016/j.jchb.2012.03.001. Epub 2012 May 18.