PMID- 25558987
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160729
LR  - 20221207
IS  - 2047-6310 (Electronic)
IS  - 2047-6302 (Print)
IS  - 2047-6302 (Linking)
VI  - 10
IP  - 6
DP  - 2015 Dec
TI  - Recent trends in the prevalence of under- and overweight among adolescent girls 
      in low- and middle-income countries.
PG  - 428-35
LID - 10.1111/ijpo.12000 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: Most studies of childhood malnutrition in low- and middle-income 
      countries (LMICs) focus on children <5 years, with few focusing on adolescence, a 
      critical stage in development. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to evaluate recent 
      trends in the prevalence of under- and overweight among girls (15-18 years) in 
      LMICs. METHODS: Data are from Demographic and Health Surveys (53 countries) and 
      national surveys conducted in Indonesia, China, Vietnam, Brazil and Mexico. The 
      most recent surveys with sample sizes >/=50 when stratified by rural-urban status 
      were included: 46.6% of countries had a survey conducted in the past 5 years, 
      while the most recent survey for 10.3% of countries was over 10 years old. The 
      overall rural sample size was 94,857 and urban sample size was 81,025. Under- and 
      overweight were defined using the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) sex- 
      and age-specific body mass index cut points. RESULTS: South Asia had the highest 
      prevalence of underweight; nearly double that of East Asia and the Pacific and 
      sub-Saharan Africa, and increasing annually by 0.66% in rural areas. Latin 
      America and the Caribbean had the highest regional prevalence of overweight in 
      both rural and urban settings, and this prevalence is increasing annually by 
      about 0.50%. In urban areas, 38% of countries had both an under- and overweight 
      prevalence >/=10%. CONCLUSIONS: There is substantial variation across and within 
      regions in the burden of under- and overweight, with increasing dual burdens in 
      urban areas. Innovative public health interventions capable of addressing both 
      ends of the malnutrition spectrum are urgently needed.
CI  - (c) 2014 World Obesity.
FAU - Jaacks, L M
AU  - Jaacks LM
AD  - Department of Nutrition, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel 
      Hill, NC, USA.
FAU - Slining, M M
AU  - Slining MM
AD  - Department of Health Sciences, Furman University, Greenville, SC, USA.
FAU - Popkin, B M
AU  - Popkin BM
AD  - Department of Nutrition, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel 
      Hill, NC, USA.
LA  - eng
GR  - D43 TW009077/TW/FIC NIH HHS/United States
GR  - P2C HD050924/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States
GR  - R24 HD050924/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States
GR  - 5 R24 HD050924/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20150105
PL  - England
TA  - Pediatr Obes
JT  - Pediatric obesity
JID - 101572033
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adolescent Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
MH  - *Asian People
MH  - *Black People
MH  - Body Mass Index
MH  - Developing Countries/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Female
MH  - Health Surveys
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
MH  - Overweight/*epidemiology
MH  - Poverty
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - *Public Health
MH  - Thinness/*epidemiology
MH  - *White People
PMC - PMC4492920
MID - NIHMS644512
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Adolescents
OT  - dual burden
OT  - overweight
OT  - underweight
COIS- Conflicts of interest The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
EDAT- 2015/01/07 06:00
MHDA- 2016/07/30 06:00
PMCR- 2016/12/01
CRDT- 2015/01/07 06:00
PHST- 2014/06/02 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2014/10/16 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2014/10/26 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2015/01/07 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/01/07 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/07/30 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2016/12/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1111/ijpo.12000 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Pediatr Obes. 2015 Dec;10(6):428-35. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.12000. Epub 2015 Jan 5.