PMID- 32071399
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210624
LR  - 20221207
IS  - 1476-5640 (Electronic)
IS  - 0954-3007 (Linking)
VI  - 74
IP  - 10
DP  - 2020 Oct
TI  - The double burden of malnutrition in Vietnamese school-aged children and 
      adolescents: a rapid shift over a decade in Ho Chi Minh City.
PG  - 1448-1456
LID - 10.1038/s41430-020-0587-6 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Vietnam is undergoing a nutrition transition, which is 
      leading to marked shifts in body size at the population level, but up-to-date 
      data are lacking. We therefore quantified the prevalence of undernutrition 
      (stunting and thinness) and overnutrition (overweight, obesity, and abdominal 
      obesity) in school-aged children in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMc), Vietnam, and 
      compared this with previous estimates. SUBJECTS/METHODS: A cross-sectional survey 
      of 10,949 children (6-18 years old) from 30 schools in HCMc, Vietnam in 2014-2015 
      was used to ascertain the nutritional status of children and adolescents. 
      Different international classification systems (WHO, IOTF, IOTF for Asian 
      children) were used to assess the prevalence of under and overnutrition. 
      Comparisons were made with previous surveys in HCMc. RESULTS: Regardless of 
      definitions used, the prevalence of overnutrition was high, particularly in 
      primary school children (20-30% were overweight, 20-30% were obese, and 50% had 
      abdominal obesity), in boys, and urban children. Undernutrition was more 
      prevalent in high-school children (8% were stunted, and 6-18% were thin, versus 2 
      and 2-9% in primary children, respectively), and in rural areas. Comparisons with 
      previous surveys indicated substantial increases in overnutrition and decreased 
      in undernutrition since 2009 in all age groups. CONCLUSIONS: Overnutrition is 
      increasingly common in school-aged children and adolescents in HCMc, while over 
      and undernutrition continue to coexist. These findings highlight an urgent need 
      for greater efforts to control malnutrition in children in HCMc.
FAU - Mai, Thi My Thien
AU  - Mai TMT
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-7790-126X
AD  - Ho Chi Minh Center for Disease Control, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. 
      thimythien.mai@hdr.qut.edu.au.
AD  - School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, 
      Brisbane, QLD, Australia. thimythien.mai@hdr.qut.edu.au.
FAU - Pham, Ngoc Oanh
AU  - Pham NO
AD  - Ho Chi Minh Center for Disease Control, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
FAU - Tran, Thi Minh Hanh
AU  - Tran TMH
AD  - Hoan My Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
FAU - Baker, Peter
AU  - Baker P
AD  - School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
FAU - Gallegos, Danielle
AU  - Gallegos D
AD  - School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, 
      Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
FAU - Do, Thi Ngoc Diep
AU  - Do TND
AD  - School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, 
      Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
FAU - van der Pols, Jolieke C
AU  - van der Pols JC
AD  - School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, 
      Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
FAU - Jordan, Susan J
AU  - Jordan SJ
AD  - School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
AD  - Department of Population Health, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, 
      Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20200218
PL  - England
TA  - Eur J Clin Nutr
JT  - European journal of clinical nutrition
JID - 8804070
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Asian People
MH  - Child
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - *Malnutrition/epidemiology
MH  - Nutritional Status
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Schools
MH  - Thinness/epidemiology
MH  - Urban Population
MH  - Vietnam/epidemiology
EDAT- 2020/02/20 06:00
MHDA- 2021/06/25 06:00
CRDT- 2020/02/20 06:00
PHST- 2019/04/19 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/02/07 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/01/31 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2020/02/20 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/06/25 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/02/20 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1038/s41430-020-0587-6 [pii]
AID - 10.1038/s41430-020-0587-6 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Eur J Clin Nutr. 2020 Oct;74(10):1448-1456. doi: 10.1038/s41430-020-0587-6. Epub 
      2020 Feb 18.