PMID- 23092820
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20140414
LR  - 20130530
IS  - 1695-9531 (Electronic)
IS  - 1695-4033 (Linking)
VI  - 78
IP  - 6
DP  - 2013 Jun
TI  - [Prevalence of childhood obesity in the Murcia Region; an assessment of different 
      references for body mass index].
PG  - 374-81
LID - S1695-4033(12)00386-4 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.anpedi.2012.09.007 [doi]
AB  - INTRODUCTION: Childhood obesity is a problem of high magnitude with serious 
      repercussions on health, which justifies estimating its prevalence at local level 
      to identify conditioning factors and to take preventive actions. The main 
      objective of the present work is to estimate the prevalence of overweight and 
      obesity in the children in the general population of the Murcia Region, using the 
      body mass index (BMI) and applying the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) 
      criteria, and to compare these results with the ones obtained from other 
      frequently used references in Spain. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The BMI of 178,894 
      children aged from 2 to 14 years was determined. The prevalence of overweight and 
      obesity was compared to the IOTF, to the studies of the World Health 
      Organization, as well as those of the Orbergozo Foundation (FO), and the 
      Cross-sectional Spanish Growth Study (ETEC) references. The agreement between the 
      different results was evaluated using the kappa index. RESULTS: The evaluation 
      using the IOTF cut-off points gave an overweight prevalence of 20.6% (95% CI: 
      20.4-20.8), an obesity prevalence of 11.4% (95% CI: 11.2-11.5) and an overweight 
      plus obesity prevalence of 32% (95% CI: 31.8-32.2), with this last one being 
      higher in girls (33.2%) than in boys (30.9%). The highest agreement is between 
      IOTF and FO-2011 (kappa=.795) and between FO-2011 and ETEC (kappa=.794). 
      CONCLUSION: A high prevalence of overweight and obesity in children in the Region 
      of Murcia was found. The ETEC and the FO-2011 study showed the highest agreement 
      with the results obtained using the IOTF criteria.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2012 Asociacion Espanola de Pediatria. Published by Elsevier Espana, 
      S.L. All rights reserved.
FAU - Espin Rios, M I
AU  - Espin Rios MI
AD  - Programas de Salud Infantil y Juvenil, Servicio de Prevencion y Proteccion de la 
      Salud, Direccion General de Salud Publica, Consejeria de Sanidad de Murcia, 
      Murcia, Espana. isabel.espin@carm.es
FAU - Perez Flores, D
AU  - Perez Flores D
FAU - Sanchez Ruiz, J F
AU  - Sanchez Ruiz JF
FAU - Salmeron Martinez, D
AU  - Salmeron Martinez D
LA  - spa
PT  - English Abstract
PT  - Journal Article
TT  - Prevalencia de obesidad infantil en la Region de Murcia, valorando distintas 
      referencias para el indice de masa corporal.
DEP - 20121023
PL  - Spain
TA  - An Pediatr (Barc)
JT  - Anales de pediatria (Barcelona, Spain : 2003)
JID - 101162596
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - *Body Mass Index
MH  - Child
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Overweight/*epidemiology
MH  - Pediatric Obesity/*epidemiology
MH  - Prevalence
EDAT- 2012/10/25 06:00
MHDA- 2014/04/15 06:00
CRDT- 2012/10/25 06:00
PHST- 2012/07/02 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2012/07/30 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2012/09/06 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2012/10/25 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/10/25 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/04/15 06:00 [medline]
AID - S1695-4033(12)00386-4 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.anpedi.2012.09.007 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - An Pediatr (Barc). 2013 Jun;78(6):374-81. doi: 10.1016/j.anpedi.2012.09.007. Epub 
      2012 Oct 23.