PMID- 24107741
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20140508
LR  - 20220129
IS  - 1662-4033 (Electronic)
IS  - 1662-4025 (Print)
IS  - 1662-4025 (Linking)
VI  - 6
IP  - 5
DP  - 2013
TI  - Emergence and persistence of overweight and obesity in 7- to 11-year-old 
      children.
PG  - 415-23
LID - 10.1159/000355677 [doi]
AB  - AIM: After dramatic rises in paediatric obesity, the critical period for obesity 
      onset may now be pre-adolescence. METHODS: We monitored adiposity over 4 years in 
      400 children aged 7-9 years recruited from schools in London. Weight, height, 
      waist circumference (WC) and fat mass were measured annually. Weight status was 
      defined using International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) criteria, and standardised 
      scores and percentiles used British 1990 reference data. RESULTS: BMI, WC and fat 
      mass index all tracked strongly over time (average correlation for BMI = 0.95). 
      Emergence of obesity was relatively uncommon: only 2% of the total sample 
      increased from overweight to obese over the 4-year period, and this was nearly 
      matched by the 1.3% that reduced from obese to overweight. However, more children 
      (6%) moved from healthy weight to overweight than the reverse direction (2%). 
      There were greater absolute gains in adiposity in children with higher baseline 
      weight status, but this was disguised in analyses using standardised scores. 
      Obesity was not an emergent trait in middle childhood, but rates were already 
      high and, in absolute terms, adiposity increased more in overweight and obese 
      than healthy weight children. CONCLUSION: These results highlight the need for 
      active management of obesity in middle childhood.
CI  - (c) 2013 S. Karger GmbH, Freiburg.
FAU - Bartle, Naomi C
AU  - Bartle NC
AD  - Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry, UK.
FAU - Hill, Claire
AU  - Hill C
FAU - Webber, Laura
AU  - Webber L
FAU - van Jaarsveld, Cornelia H M
AU  - van Jaarsveld CH
FAU - Wardle, Jane
AU  - Wardle J
LA  - eng
GR  - 14133/CRUK_/Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom
GR  - C1418/A6142/CRUK_/Cancer Research UK/United Kingdom
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20131008
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Obes Facts
JT  - Obesity facts
JID - 101469429
SB  - IM
MH  - *Adipose Tissue
MH  - *Adiposity
MH  - *Body Mass Index
MH  - Child
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - London/epidemiology
MH  - Male
MH  - Overweight/epidemiology
MH  - Pediatric Obesity/*epidemiology
MH  - *Waist Circumference
PMC - PMC5644674
EDAT- 2013/10/11 06:00
MHDA- 2014/05/09 06:00
PMCR- 2013/10/08
CRDT- 2013/10/11 06:00
PHST- 2012/08/02 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2013/02/17 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2013/10/11 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/10/11 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/05/09 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2013/10/08 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 000355677 [pii]
AID - ofa-0006-0415 [pii]
AID - 10.1159/000355677 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Obes Facts. 2013;6(5):415-23. doi: 10.1159/000355677. Epub 2013 Oct 8.