PMID- 27544722
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20170504
LR  - 20210503
IS  - 2191-0251 (Electronic)
IS  - 0334-018X (Linking)
VI  - 29
IP  - 9
DP  - 2016 Sep 1
TI  - WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative in Serbia: a prevalence of 
      overweight and obesity among 6-9-year-old school children.
PG  - 1025-30
LID - 10.1515/jpem-2016-0138 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) European Childhood Obesity 
      Surveillance Initiative (COSI) is a public health program established in order to 
      understand the progress of the obesity epidemic in young populations and gain 
      inter-country comparisons within the European region, yet the data from a number 
      of East European countries, including Serbia, were not available then. Therefore, 
      the main aim of this cross-sectional study was to collect data about the 
      prevalence of overweight and obesity among 6-9-year-old school children in Serbia 
      according to the standardized protocol during the Fourth COSI Implementation 
      Round. METHODS: From September 2015 to November 2015, 5102 first- and 
      second-grade primary-school children (age 7.7+/-0.6 years) were assessed for 
      weight, height, and body mass index (BMI) in 14 Serbian school districts. 
      RESULTS: The prevalence rates of obesity, as calculated using the International 
      Obesity Task Force (IOTF) cut-off points, vary across different age groups, with 
      the lowest obesity rates reported in 7-year-old boys (6.2%), while the highest 
      obesity prevalence rates were observed in 6-year-old boys (9.7%). In addition, 
      being overweight was strongly associated with poor local community development 
      and lower level of urbanization. The overall prevalence of overweight (23.1%, 
      including obesity) and obesity (6.9%) in Serbian primary-school children seem to 
      be comparable to rather high rates previously reported in other countries 
      participating in the COSI program, indicating an obesity epidemic in Serbian 
      children. CONCLUSIONS: This surveillance system should be regularly implemented 
      throughout Europe, providing comparable data on rates of overweight/obesity in 
      primary schools that might drive prudent actions to reverse the pandemic trend of 
      childhood obesity.
FAU - Djordjic, Visnja
AU  - Djordjic V
FAU - Radisavljevic, Snezana
AU  - Radisavljevic S
FAU - Milanovic, Ivana
AU  - Milanovic I
FAU - Bozic, Predrag
AU  - Bozic P
FAU - Grbic, Miljana
AU  - Grbic M
FAU - Jorga, Jagoda
AU  - Jorga J
FAU - Ostojic, Sergej M
AU  - Ostojic SM
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Germany
TA  - J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab
JT  - Journal of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism : JPEM
JID - 9508900
SB  - IM
MH  - Body Mass Index
MH  - *Body Weight
MH  - Child
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Female
MH  - Follow-Up Studies
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Nutritional Status
MH  - Overweight/diagnosis/*epidemiology
MH  - Pediatric Obesity/diagnosis/*epidemiology
MH  - Population Surveillance
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Prognosis
MH  - Schools
MH  - Serbia/epidemiology
MH  - World Health Organization
EDAT- 2016/08/22 06:00
MHDA- 2017/05/05 06:00
CRDT- 2016/08/22 06:00
PHST- 2016/04/07 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2016/07/18 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2016/08/22 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/08/22 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/05/05 06:00 [medline]
AID - /j/jpem.ahead-of-print/jpem-2016-0138/jpem-2016-0138.xml [pii]
AID - 10.1515/jpem-2016-0138 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab. 2016 Sep 1;29(9):1025-30. doi: 
      10.1515/jpem-2016-0138.