PMID- 25405103
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20150413
LR  - 20240325
IS  - 2242-3982 (Electronic)
IS  - 1239-9736 (Print)
IS  - 1239-9736 (Linking)
VI  - 73
DP  - 2014
TI  - A national study on weight classes among children in Greenland at school entry.
LID - 10.3402/ijch.v73.25537 [doi]
AB  - OBJECTIVES: To estimate the proportion of gender-specific thinness, overweight 
      and obesity among children born in 2005 at school entry in Greenland and to 
      compare figures between the capital, Nuuk, with the rest of Greenland. STUDY 
      DESIGN: A cross-sectional study based on data from Electronic Medical Records 
      (EMR). METHODS: All children born in 2005 with permanent address in Greenland at 
      the time of data extraction with a registered weight and height in EMR from 
      January 1st 2011 to January 31st 2013 were included in the study. Information 
      about height without shoes and weight in light indoor clothing was obtained. Body 
      Mass Index (BMI) was calculated. Participants were categorized into age and 
      gender-specific weight classes based on the International Obesity Task Force 
      (IOTF) cut-offs for child overweight, obesity and thinness. RESULTS: A total of 
      842 children born in 2005 were identified. Of those, 72% (N=607, 308 boys and 299 
      girls) had a recorded weight and height in the study period. In total, 74.6% 
      (71.2-78.1) were categorized as of normal weight. The proportion of children with 
      overweight was 15.8% (12.9-18.7) while 6.8% (4.8-8.8) were obese. In all, 2.9% 
      were categorized as thin. The proportion of overweight among boys (12.7%) was 
      lower (p=0.031) than among girls (19.1%), and boys in Nuuk had a lower median BMI 
      compared to the rest of Greenland. No differences in distribution of age and 
      gender-specific overweight and obesity were observed between the capital and the 
      rest of Greenland. CONCLUSION: Nearly 1 quarter of Greenlandic children are 
      overweight or obese at school entry. No differences were observed between Nuuk 
      and the rest of Greenland. Information about weight and height is available in 
      the EMR for the majority of all children at school entry in Greenland. Continuous 
      monitoring of the proportion of overweight and obesity among children using data 
      from the EMR in Greenland is recommended.
FAU - Rex, Karsten F
AU  - Rex KF
AD  - Queen Ingrid Healthcare Center, Nuuk, Greenland.
FAU - Larsen, Nicolai H
AU  - Larsen NH
AD  - Queen Ingrid Healthcare Center, Nuuk, Greenland.
FAU - Rex, Hanne
AU  - Rex H
AD  - Queen Ingrid Healthcare Center, Nuuk, Greenland.
FAU - Niclasen, Birgit
AU  - Niclasen B
AD  - National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, 
      Denmark.
FAU - Pedersen, Michael L
AU  - Pedersen ML
AD  - Queen Ingrid Healthcare Center, Nuuk, Greenland ; Greenland Center for Health 
      Research, Institute of Nursing and Health Science, University of Greenland, Nuuk, 
      Greenland.
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20141020
PL  - United States
TA  - Int J Circumpolar Health
JT  - International journal of circumpolar health
JID - 9713056
SB  - IM
MH  - *Anthropometry
MH  - *Body Mass Index
MH  - *Body Weight
MH  - Chi-Square Distribution
MH  - Child
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Databases, Factual
MH  - Electronic Health Records
MH  - Female
MH  - Greenland/epidemiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Incidence
MH  - Male
MH  - Overweight/diagnosis/epidemiology
MH  - Pediatric Obesity/*epidemiology/prevention & control
MH  - Reference Values
MH  - Risk Assessment
MH  - School Health Services
MH  - Sex Distribution
MH  - Statistics, Nonparametric
MH  - Thinness/epidemiology
PMC - PMC4215721
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - BMI
OT  - Greenland
OT  - Inuit
OT  - children
OT  - cross-sectional
OT  - normal weight
OT  - obesity
OT  - overweight
OT  - thinness
EDAT- 2014/11/19 06:00
MHDA- 2015/04/14 06:00
PMCR- 2014/01/01
CRDT- 2014/11/19 06:00
PHST- 2014/07/23 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2014/09/10 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2014/09/12 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2014/11/19 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/11/19 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/04/14 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2014/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 25537 [pii]
AID - 10.3402/ijch.v73.25537 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Int J Circumpolar Health. 2014 Oct 20;73. doi: 10.3402/ijch.v73.25537. 
      eCollection 2014.