PMID- 32932779
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210106
LR  - 20210106
IS  - 1660-4601 (Electronic)
IS  - 1661-7827 (Print)
IS  - 1660-4601 (Linking)
VI  - 17
IP  - 18
DP  - 2020 Sep 11
TI  - The Predictors of Obesity among Urban Girls and Boys Aged 8-10 Years-A 
      Cross-Sectional Study in North-Western Poland.
LID - 10.3390/ijerph17186611 [doi]
LID - 6611
AB  - BACKGROUND: Children worldwide are increasingly becoming overweight and obese and 
      developing related health problems, including hypertension, lipid disorders, 
      abnormal glucose tolerance, type 2 diabetes, and secondary psychological 
      disorders. The aim of the study was to determine sociodemographic risk factors 
      that predict an increase in BMI in children at an early school age. MATERIAL AND 
      METHOD: The study covered 4972 children aged 8-10 years, including boys (N = 
      2461) and girls (N = 2511). Measurements of basic anthropometric indicators were 
      used, such as body height, body weight, body composition, and physical fitness. 
      The criteria developed by the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) were 
      adopted. Sociodemographic features were analyzed based on a diagnostic survey. 
      IBM SPSS Statistics v.25 (Mineral Midrange SA, Warsaw, Poland) and IBM SPSS Amos 
      software (Mineral Midrange SA, Warsaw, Poland) were used to perform descriptive 
      statistics, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, Pearson's chi-square test, Student's 
      t-test, and the Mann-Whitney U test. The statistical significance index was 
      assumed to be p < 0.05, while p < 0.01 was taken as an indicator of a trend which 
      was not completely statistically significant. RESULTS: Both the children and 
      their parents had mainly moderate BMI. A total of 78.7% of children were within 
      the weight norm. Among girls, extreme obesity was two times more frequent than 
      extreme underweight. The examined boys were significantly taller, heavier, and 
      had a higher BMI than girls. There were significant differences between boys and 
      girls in BMI; however, gender alone accounted for less than 1% variance. The 
      influence of parents' characteristics was much greater, increasing the explained 
      variance to 10%. Body weight of mothers and fathers (p < 0.001), mother's height 
      (p < 0.01) and both parents' level of education (p < 0.001) were detected as 
      significant predictors of children's BMI. CONCLUSIONS: The analysis of selected 
      sociodemographic and health factors determining the BMI of the child population 
      indicates the need for preventive action and health promotion both among children 
      and their parents.
FAU - Ratajczak, Joanna
AU  - Ratajczak J
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3435-3758
AD  - Department of Physical Culture and Health, University of Szczecin, 71-065 
      Szczecin, Poland.
FAU - Petriczko, Elzbieta
AU  - Petriczko E
AD  - Department of Pediatrics, Endocrinology, Diabetology, Metabolic Disorders and 
      Cardiology of Developmental Age, Pomeranian Medical University, 71-242 Szczecin, 
      Poland.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20200911
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Int J Environ Res Public Health
JT  - International journal of environmental research and public health
JID - 101238455
SB  - IM
MH  - Aged
MH  - Body Mass Index
MH  - Child
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - *Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - *Obesity/epidemiology
MH  - Poland/epidemiology
MH  - Pregnancy
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Prognosis
MH  - Risk
PMC - PMC7559587
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - epidemiology of childhood obesity
OT  - sociodemographic and health factors
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2020/09/17 06:00
MHDA- 2021/01/07 06:00
PMCR- 2020/09/01
CRDT- 2020/09/16 01:01
PHST- 2020/07/22 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/09/02 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2020/09/07 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/09/16 01:01 [entrez]
PHST- 2020/09/17 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/01/07 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/09/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - ijerph17186611 [pii]
AID - ijerph-17-06611 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/ijerph17186611 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Sep 11;17(18):6611. doi: 
      10.3390/ijerph17186611.