PMID- 30361086
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20181211
LR  - 20181211
IS  - 1769-664X (Electronic)
IS  - 0929-693X (Linking)
VI  - 25
IP  - 8
DP  - 2018 Nov
TI  - Body mass index reference curves for Tunisian children.
PG  - 459-463
LID - S0929-693X(18)30204-5 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.arcped.2018.09.005 [doi]
AB  - Body mass index (BMI) reference curves are used to assess children's health. The 
      aim of this work is to construct BMI reference curves for Tunisian children and 
      adolescents and compare them with local and international references. The BMI 
      reference curves were constructed using the LMS method using data from 4358 
      Tunisian children (2182 girls and 2176 boys) aged 0-18 years. The result of this 
      study presents the smoothed percentile curves of BMI on the basis of age and sex 
      of Tunisian children. The reference curves of Tunisian children demonstrated some 
      variations in comparison with the median percentiles with the references of the 
      International Obesity Task Force (IOTF), the World Health Organization (WHO), and 
      with local references from Algeria and Turkey. The prevalence study indicated 
      that the rate of overweight has increased mainly in adolescent children. 
      CONCLUSION: the new BMI reference curves could help pediatricians and fitness 
      specialists to assess the nutritional status of Tunisian children and to reduce 
      disease and obesity risks.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2018. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.
FAU - Ghouili, H
AU  - Ghouili H
AD  - Research Unit, Sportive Performance and Physical Rehabilitation, UR13JS01, High 
      Institute of Sports and Physical Education of Kef, University of Jendouba, 7100 
      Kef, Tunisia; Faculty of Sciences Bizerte, University of Carthage, 7021 Bizerte, 
      Tunisia. Electronic address: hatemghouili@gmail.com.
FAU - Ben Khalifa, W
AU  - Ben Khalifa W
AD  - Research Unit, Sportive Performance and Physical Rehabilitation, UR13JS01, High 
      Institute of Sports and Physical Education of Kef, University of Jendouba, 7100 
      Kef, Tunisia.
FAU - Ouerghi, N
AU  - Ouerghi N
AD  - Research Unit, Sportive Performance and Physical Rehabilitation, UR13JS01, High 
      Institute of Sports and Physical Education of Kef, University of Jendouba, 7100 
      Kef, Tunisia.
FAU - Zouaoui, M
AU  - Zouaoui M
AD  - Research Unit, Sportive Performance and Physical Rehabilitation, UR13JS01, High 
      Institute of Sports and Physical Education of Kef, University of Jendouba, 7100 
      Kef, Tunisia.
FAU - Dridi, A
AU  - Dridi A
AD  - Research Unit, Sportive Performance and Physical Rehabilitation, UR13JS01, High 
      Institute of Sports and Physical Education of Kef, University of Jendouba, 7100 
      Kef, Tunisia.
FAU - Gmada, N
AU  - Gmada N
AD  - Research Unit, Sportive Performance and Physical Rehabilitation, UR13JS01, High 
      Institute of Sports and Physical Education of Kef, University of Jendouba, 7100 
      Kef, Tunisia; Physical Education Department, faculty of education, Sultan Qaboos 
      University, Sultanate of Oman 123, Oman.
FAU - Bouassida, A
AU  - Bouassida A
AD  - Research Unit, Sportive Performance and Physical Rehabilitation, UR13JS01, High 
      Institute of Sports and Physical Education of Kef, University of Jendouba, 7100 
      Kef, Tunisia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Multicenter Study
DEP - 20181022
PL  - France
TA  - Arch Pediatr
JT  - Archives de pediatrie : organe officiel de la Societe francaise de pediatrie
JID - 9421356
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - *Body Mass Index
MH  - Child
MH  - Child Development/physiology
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Infant
MH  - Infant, Newborn
MH  - Male
MH  - Nutritional Status
MH  - Overweight/*epidemiology
MH  - Pediatric Obesity/*epidemiology
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Reference Values
MH  - Tunisia/epidemiology
MH  - World Health Organization
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Body mass index
OT  - Children
OT  - LMS method
OT  - Percentile
EDAT- 2018/10/27 06:00
MHDA- 2018/12/12 06:00
CRDT- 2018/10/27 06:00
PHST- 2018/04/07 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2018/07/31 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2018/09/23 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2018/10/27 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/12/12 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2018/10/27 06:00 [entrez]
AID - S0929-693X(18)30204-5 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.arcped.2018.09.005 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Arch Pediatr. 2018 Nov;25(8):459-463. doi: 10.1016/j.arcped.2018.09.005. Epub 
      2018 Oct 22.