PMID- 29169716 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180222 LR - 20180222 IS - 1769-664X (Electronic) IS - 0929-693X (Linking) VI - 24 IP - 12 DP - 2017 Dec TI - [Body mass index charts of Algerian children and adolescents (6-18 years)]. PG - 1205-1213 LID - S0929-693X(17)30407-4 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.arcped.2017.09.021 [doi] AB - The body mass index (BMI) is widely accepted as a measure of overweight and obesity in children. There are no BMI reference charts for Algerian children and adolescents. The purpose of this study was to construct BMI percentile curves appropriate for children aged 6-18 years in Algeria. The weight and height of 7772 (54.9% girls) healthy schoolchildren from Constantine (eastern Algeria) were measured in 2008/2009. Weight and height for age curves based on the same sample were published previously. The BMI for age percentile curves were estimated in girls and boys separately using the LMS smoothing method. In both sexes, the median BMI increased with age. Girls had lower BMI values than boys before the age of 10 years but they were higher after this age until 18 years of age. Within the study population, the prevalence of overweight (including obesity) and obesity in girls and boys together was 13.7% and 3.0%, respectively, according to the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) and 16.9% and 4.9% according to the World Health Organization (WHO) (2007). The median BMI curves of Algerian girls and boys were generally lower than those observed in other Arab countries. Compared with other references, the median BMI values of girls were lower than those of a Belgian Flemish population and WHO 2007 until 14 years of age and higher than the French reference between 7 and 18 years of age. The BMI values of Algerian boys were close to the Belgian (Flemish population), French and WHO 2007 references between 6 and 9 years of age and generally lower thereafter. These BMI curves are complementary to the height and weight charts published previously for the assessment of growth in children and adolescents. They were developed according to international guidelines and could serve as a national reference. They could be used as a complement to the 0- to 5-year-old WHO 2006 standards. CI - Copyright (c) 2017 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved. FAU - Bahchachi, N AU - Bahchachi N AD - Institut de la nutrition, de l'alimentation et des technologies agro-alimentaires (INATAA), universite Freres-Mentouri-Constantine 1, route de Ain-El-Bey, 25000 Constantine, Algerie. Electronic address: bahchachi.nora@umc.edu.dz. FAU - Dahel-Mekhancha, C-C AU - Dahel-Mekhancha CC AD - Institut de la nutrition, de l'alimentation et des technologies agro-alimentaires (INATAA), universite Freres-Mentouri-Constantine 1, route de Ain-El-Bey, 25000 Constantine, Algerie; Laboratoire de recherche d'ALimentation, NUTrition et Sante (ALNUTS), Constantine, Algerie. FAU - Rolland-Cachera, M-F AU - Rolland-Cachera MF AD - Equipe de recherche en epidemiologie nutritionnelle, centre de recherche en epidemiologie et statistiques, Inserm (U1153), Inra (U1125), Cnam, COMUE Sorbonne Paris Cite, universite Paris 13, 93017 Bobigny, France. FAU - Roelants, M AU - Roelants M AD - Environment and health, department of public health and primary care, KU Leuven, university of Leuven, Leuven, Belgique. FAU - Hauspie, R AU - Hauspie R AD - Laboratory of anthropogenetics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgique. FAU - Nezzal, L AU - Nezzal L AD - Laboratoire de recherche d'ALimentation, NUTrition et Sante (ALNUTS), Constantine, Algerie; Laboratoire ALimentation, NUTrition et Sante, faculte de medecine, universite Salah-Boubnider, Constantine 3, Algerie. LA - fre PT - Journal Article TT - Courbes de l'indice de masse corporelle d'enfants et adolescents algeriens (6-18 ans). DEP - 20171121 PL - France TA - Arch Pediatr JT - Archives de pediatrie : organe officiel de la Societe francaise de pediatrie JID - 9421356 SB - IM MH - Adolescent MH - Algeria MH - Body Height MH - *Body Mass Index MH - Body Weight MH - Child MH - Cross-Sectional Studies MH - Female MH - Growth Charts MH - Humans MH - Male EDAT- 2017/11/25 06:00 MHDA- 2018/02/23 06:00 CRDT- 2017/11/25 06:00 PHST- 2017/02/04 00:00 [received] PHST- 2017/08/30 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2017/09/21 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2017/11/25 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/02/23 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2017/11/25 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0929-693X(17)30407-4 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.arcped.2017.09.021 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Arch Pediatr. 2017 Dec;24(12):1205-1213. doi: 10.1016/j.arcped.2017.09.021. Epub 2017 Nov 21.