PMID- 23318719
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20140505
LR  - 20220409
IS  - 1476-5497 (Electronic)
IS  - 0307-0565 (Linking)
VI  - 37
IP  - 9
DP  - 2013 Sep
TI  - Changes in adiposity indicators of Ho Chi Minh City adolescents in a 5-year 
      prospective cohort study.
PG  - 1261-7
LID - 10.1038/ijo.2012.217 [doi]
AB  - OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to examine changes over 5 years in body mass 
      index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) of adolescents from Ho Chi Minh City by 
      age, gender and household economic status. METHODS: Anthropometry including 
      height, weight and WC measurements of 759 secondary high school students were 
      collected 1-year apart in a prospective cohort study, between 2004 and 2009. BMI 
      was calculated and overweight/obesity was defined using International Obesity 
      Task Force (IOTF) BMI cutoffs. Abdominal 'overweight' and 'obesity' were defined 
      as WC >91st-97th and >/=98th centile, respectively. BMI z-scores were also created. 
      RESULTS: Over the 5-year period, the absolute changes in mean BMI and WC were 
      statistically significant (P<0.001). Boys had higher BMI and WC values than girls 
      (P<0.001). The prevalence of overweight and obesity defined by IOTF BMI cutoff 
      values increased gradually from 12.5% and 1.7% in the first year to 16.7% and 
      5.1% in the last year. Using WC cutoff values, the prevalence of abdominal 
      overweight and obesity increased from 12.9% and 1.8% to 18.5% and 6.6%, 
      respectively. BMI z-score curves shifted towards the right-hand side of the 
      distribution (that is, towards overweight and obesity). CONCLUSION: Overweight 
      and obesity, as measured by BMI or WC, continued to increase among adolescents of 
      Ho Chi Minh City over the 5-year period.
FAU - Hong, T K
AU  - Hong TK
AD  - Department of Community Health, Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine, Ho Chi 
      Minh City, Vietnam.
FAU - Trang, N H H D
AU  - Trang NH
FAU - Dibley, M J
AU  - Dibley MJ
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Multicenter Study
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20130115
PL  - England
TA  - Int J Obes (Lond)
JT  - International journal of obesity (2005)
JID - 101256108
SB  - IM
MH  - *Adiposity
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adolescent Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
MH  - Body Mass Index
MH  - Cardiovascular Diseases/*epidemiology/etiology
MH  - Child
MH  - Cohort Studies
MH  - Family Characteristics
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Obesity/complications/*epidemiology
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Prospective Studies
MH  - Socioeconomic Factors
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Thinness/*epidemiology
MH  - Urban Health
MH  - Vietnam/epidemiology
MH  - Waist Circumference
EDAT- 2013/01/16 06:00
MHDA- 2014/05/06 06:00
CRDT- 2013/01/16 06:00
PHST- 2012/01/30 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2012/11/12 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2012/11/28 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2013/01/16 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/01/16 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/05/06 06:00 [medline]
AID - ijo2012217 [pii]
AID - 10.1038/ijo.2012.217 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Int J Obes (Lond). 2013 Sep;37(9):1261-7. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2012.217. Epub 2013 
      Jan 15.