PMID- 28806888
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20191120
IS  - 0300-9831 (Print)
IS  - 0300-9831 (Linking)
VI  - 86
IP  - 3-4
DP  - 2016 Jun
TI  - Breakfast Skipping Is an Independent Predictor of Obesity but not Overweight 
      Among Children in a Southeastern European Population.
PG  - 242-248
LID - 10.1024/0300-9831/a000272 [doi]
AB  - AIM: To assess the association of breakfast skipping with overweight and obesity 
      among children in Albania, a post-communist country in the Western Balkans, which 
      is undergoing a long and difficult political and socioeconomic transition towards 
      a market-oriented economy. METHODS: A nationwide cross-sectional study was 
      carried out in Albania in 2013 including a representative sample of 5810 children 
      aged 7.0 - 9.9 years (49.5% girls aged 8.4 +/- 0.6 years and 51.5% boys aged 8.5 +/- 
      0.6 years; overall response rate: 97%). Children were measured for height and 
      weight, and body mass index (BMI) calculated. Cut-off BMI values of the World 
      Health Organization (WHO) and the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) were 
      used to define overweight and obesity in children. Demographic data were also 
      collected. RESULTS: Upon adjustment for age, sex, and place of residence, 
      breakfast skipping was positively related to obesity (WHO criteria: OR = 1.5, 95% 
      CI = 1.3-1.9; IOTF criteria: OR = 1.9, 95% CI = 1.4-2.5), but not overweight (OR 
      = 1.1, 95% CI = 0.9-1.3 and OR = 1.1, 95% CI = 0.9-1.4, respectively). 
      Furthermore, breakfast skipping was associated with a higher BMI 
      (multivariable-adjusted OR = 1.05, 95% CI = 1.02-1.07). CONCLUSIONS: Our findings 
      point to a strong and consistent positive relationship between breakfast skipping 
      and obesity, but not overweight, among children in this transitional southeastern 
      European population. Future studies in Albania and other transitional settings 
      should prospectively examine the causal role of breakfast skipping in the 
      development of overweight and obesity.
FAU - Burazeri, Genc
AU  - Burazeri G
AD  - 1 University of Medicine, Tirana, Albania.
AD  - 2 Department of International Health, School for Public Health and Primary Care 
      (CAPHRI), Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, 
      Maastricht, The Netherlands.
FAU - Hyska, Jolanda
AU  - Hyska J
AD  - 1 University of Medicine, Tirana, Albania.
AD  - 3 Institute of Public Health, Tirana, Albania.
FAU - Mone, Iris
AU  - Mone I
AD  - 1 University of Medicine, Tirana, Albania.
FAU - Roshi, Enver
AU  - Roshi E
AD  - 1 University of Medicine, Tirana, Albania.
AD  - 3 Institute of Public Health, Tirana, Albania.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20170815
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Int J Vitam Nutr Res
JT  - International journal for vitamin and nutrition research. Internationale 
      Zeitschrift fur Vitamin- und Ernahrungsforschung. Journal international de 
      vitaminologie et de nutrition
JID - 1273304
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Albania
OT  - body mass index
OT  - breakfast skipping
OT  - obesity
OT  - overweight
EDAT- 2017/08/16 06:00
MHDA- 2017/08/16 06:01
CRDT- 2017/08/16 06:00
PHST- 2017/08/16 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/08/16 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2017/08/16 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1024/0300-9831/a000272 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Int J Vitam Nutr Res. 2016 Jun;86(3-4):242-248. doi: 10.1024/0300-9831/a000272. 
      Epub 2017 Aug 15.