PMID- 30610774
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20190211
LR  - 20200225
IS  - 1332-8166 (Electronic)
IS  - 0353-9504 (Print)
IS  - 0353-9504 (Linking)
VI  - 59
IP  - 6
DP  - 2018 Dec 31
TI  - Comparison of Slovak reference values for anthropometric parameters in children 
      and adolescents with international growth standards: implications for the 
      assessment of overweight and obesity.
PG  - 313-326
AB  - AIM: To compare the national reference percentile values for body height, weight, 
      and body mass index (BMI) of children and adolescents in Slovakia with 
      international standards and to analyze growth trends in this population. METHODS: 
      The study was designed as a repeated cross-sectional survey. Two nationwide 
      anthropometric surveys (NAS) performed in 2001 and 2011 assessed body weight, 
      height, and BMI of 38 692 children aged 7 to 18 years. Age- and sex-specific 
      smoothed percentiles were generated with the lambda-mu-sigma method. Slovak 
      standards were compared with World Health Organization (WHO) 2007 z-scores and 
      International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) standards. RESULTS: Medians of body 
      height corresponded to the 75th-85th percentile of the WHO 2007 standards. The 
      secular trend of height increase was attenuated, and the final body height did 
      not change between NAS 2001 and NAS 2011. The cut-off BMI values for obesity, set 
      at the 97th percentile for age <14 years, were higher across age ranges than WHO 
      2007 standards but lower than IOTF standards. Obesity prevalence, relatively low 
      in 2001 (<3%), doubled during the following decade (P<0.001), with the highest 
      values (4.8%-7.6%) observed in children aged up to 13 years. CONCLUSION: NAS 2001 
      data were chosen as national growth standards, as these data were not influenced 
      by the obesity rates increase in the period between the surveys. BMI cut-offs 
      were lower than those in most European countries. Obesity proportions in 
      prepubertal and pubertal boys might be overestimated when WHO 2007 cut-offs are 
      used.
FAU - Regecova, Valeria
AU  - Regecova V
AD  - Valeria Regecova, Institute of Normal and Pathological Physiology, Center of 
      Experimental Medicine, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Sienkiewiczova 1, 81371 
      Bratislava, Slovakia, valeria.regecova@gmail.com.
FAU - Hamade, Jana
AU  - Hamade J
FAU - Janechova, Hana
AU  - Janechova H
FAU - Sevcikova, Ludmila
AU  - Sevcikova L
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Croatia
TA  - Croat Med J
JT  - Croatian medical journal
JID - 9424324
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Anthropometry
MH  - *Body Height
MH  - *Body Mass Index
MH  - *Body Weight
MH  - Child
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Obesity/*diagnosis/*epidemiology
MH  - Overweight/diagnosis/epidemiology
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Reference Values
MH  - Slovakia/epidemiology
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - World Health Organization
PMC - PMC6330770
EDAT- 2019/01/06 06:00
MHDA- 2019/02/12 06:00
PMCR- 2018/12/01
CRDT- 2019/01/06 06:00
PHST- 2019/01/06 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2019/01/06 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/02/12 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2018/12/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - CroatMedJ_0313 [pii]
AID - 10.3325/cmj.2018.59.313 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Croat Med J. 2018 Dec 31;59(6):313-326. doi: 10.3325/cmj.2018.59.313.