PMID- 28730679
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20180516
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1467-789X (Electronic)
IS  - 1467-7881 (Linking)
VI  - 18
IP  - 10
DP  - 2017 Oct
TI  - Weighing in on international growth standards: testing the case in Australian 
      preschool children.
PG  - 1111-1121
LID - 10.1111/obr.12581 [doi]
AB  - Overweight and obesity in preschool-aged children are major health concerns. 
      Accurate and reliable estimates of prevalence are necessary to direct public 
      health and clinical interventions. There are currently three international growth 
      standards used to determine prevalence of overweight and obesity, each using 
      different methodologies: Center for Disease Control (CDC), World Health 
      Organization (WHO) and International Obesity Task Force (IOTF). Adoption and use 
      of each method were examined through a systematic review of Australian population 
      studies (2006-2017). For this period, systematically identified population 
      studies (N = 20) reported prevalence of overweight and obesity ranging between 15 
      and 38% with most (n = 16) applying the IOTF standards. To demonstrate the 
      differences in prevalence estimates yielded by the IOTF in comparison to the WHO 
      and CDC standards, methods were applied to a sample of N = 1,926 Australian 
      children, aged 3-5 years. As expected, the three standards yielded significantly 
      different estimates when applied to this single population. Prevalence of 
      overweight/obesity was WHO - 9.3%, IOTF - 21.7% and CDC - 33.1%. Judicious 
      selection of growth standards, taking account of their underpinning methodologies 
      and provisions of access to study data sets to allow prevalence comparisons, is 
      recommended.
CI  - (c) 2017 World Obesity Federation.
FAU - Pattinson, C L
AU  - Pattinson CL
AD  - Institute for Health and Biomedical Innovation, Centre for Children's Health 
      Research, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
AD  - School of Psychology and Counselling, Queensland University of Technology, 
      Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
FAU - Staton, S L
AU  - Staton SL
AD  - Institute for Health and Biomedical Innovation, Centre for Children's Health 
      Research, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
AD  - School of Psychology and Counselling, Queensland University of Technology, 
      Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
FAU - Smith, S S
AU  - Smith SS
AD  - Recover Injury Research Centre, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, The 
      University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
FAU - Trost, S G
AU  - Trost SG
AD  - Institute for Health and Biomedical Innovation, Centre for Children's Health 
      Research, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
AD  - School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Centre for Children's Health Research, 
      Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
FAU - Sawyer, E F
AU  - Sawyer EF
AD  - School of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University, Townsville City, 
      Queensland, Australia.
FAU - Thorpe, K J
AU  - Thorpe KJ
AD  - Institute for Health and Biomedical Innovation, Centre for Children's Health 
      Research, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
AD  - School of Psychology and Counselling, Queensland University of Technology, 
      Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
AD  - Institute of Social Science Research, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 
      Queensland, Australia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Review
PT  - Systematic Review
DEP - 20170721
PL  - England
TA  - Obes Rev
JT  - Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the 
      Study of Obesity
JID - 100897395
SB  - IM
MH  - Australia/epidemiology
MH  - Child Development
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Humans
MH  - Pediatric Obesity/*epidemiology
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Reference Standards
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Body mass index
OT  - children
OT  - growth standards
OT  - obesity
OT  - overweight
OT  - preschool
EDAT- 2017/07/22 06:00
MHDA- 2018/05/17 06:00
CRDT- 2017/07/22 06:00
PHST- 2017/02/18 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2017/05/19 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2017/05/24 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2017/07/22 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/05/17 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2017/07/22 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1111/obr.12581 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Obes Rev. 2017 Oct;18(10):1111-1121. doi: 10.1111/obr.12581. Epub 2017 Jul 21.