PMID- 33058744
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20211025
LR  - 20211025
IS  - 2153-2176 (Electronic)
IS  - 2153-2168 (Linking)
VI  - 16
IP  - 8
DP  - 2020 Dec
TI  - The Influence of Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet among Children and Their 
      Parents in Relation to Childhood Overweight/Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Study in 
      Greece.
PG  - 571-578
LID - 10.1089/chi.2020.0228 [doi]
AB  - Background: Childhood overweight/obesity constitutes a serious issue, as may 
      cause several health problems. The main characteristics of the Mediterranean Diet 
      have been acknowledged as the most appropriate shield mainly for obesity. 
      Methods: The study was performed on 1728 primary students, during school years 
      2014-2016, in Greece. Children and their parents completed questionnaires which 
      included dietary and lifestyle habits. The KIDMED score (range -4 to 12) was used 
      to assess the level of childhood adherence to the Mediterranean diet and the 
      MedDietScore (range 0 to 55) was used to assess parental adherence. For the 
      purposes of this analysis, the examined sample was n = 875 of students (522 
      girls)-parents pairs whose level of adherence to the Mediterranean diet was able 
      to be evaluated. Results: The prevalence of overweight and obesity in the Greek 
      sample was 26.0%, according to International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) cutoff 
      criteria for children. KIDMED Score was significantly lower in children with 
      overweight/obesity compared with children with normal weight (4.65 +/- 2.14 vs. 
      5.16 +/- 2.05, p = 0.002). The multiadjusted analysis revealed that children close 
      to the Mediterranean diet were less likely to be overweight/obese (p < 0.001), 
      either parents are away from or close to the Mediterranean diet. Conclusions: 
      This study revealed that children's adherence to the Mediterranean diet was 
      inversely associated with weight status either parents are away from or close to 
      this dietary pattern. Future interventions against childhood obesity have to take 
      into consideration the crucial importance of familial aggregation of healthy food 
      choices and interfamily influences in the home environment on children's weight 
      status.
FAU - Kosti, Rena I
AU  - Kosti RI
AD  - Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Physical Education, Sports and 
      Dietetics, University of Thessaly, Trikala, Greece.
FAU - Kanellopoulou, Aikaterini
AU  - Kanellopoulou A
AD  - Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Science and Education, 
      Harokopio University, Athens, Greece.
FAU - Fragkedaki, Evanthia
AU  - Fragkedaki E
AD  - Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Science and Education, 
      Harokopio University, Athens, Greece.
FAU - Notara, Venetia
AU  - Notara V
AD  - Department of Public and Community Health, Laboratory of Hygiene and 
      Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece.
FAU - Giannakopoulou, Sofia-Panagiota
AU  - Giannakopoulou SP
AD  - Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Science and Education, 
      Harokopio University, Athens, Greece.
FAU - Antonogeorgos, George
AU  - Antonogeorgos G
AD  - Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Science and Education, 
      Harokopio University, Athens, Greece.
FAU - Rojas-Gil, Andrea Paola
AU  - Rojas-Gil AP
AD  - Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Peloponnese, 
      Tripoli, Greece.
FAU - Kornilaki, Ekaterina N
AU  - Kornilaki EN
AD  - Department of Preschool Education, School of Education, University of Crete, 
      Rethymnon, Greece.
FAU - Lagiou, Areti
AU  - Lagiou A
AD  - Department of Public and Community Health, Laboratory of Hygiene and 
      Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece.
FAU - Panagiotakos, Demosthenes B
AU  - Panagiotakos DB
AD  - Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Science and Education, 
      Harokopio University, Athens, Greece.
AD  - Faculty of Health, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20201015
PL  - United States
TA  - Child Obes
JT  - Childhood obesity (Print)
JID - 101542497
SB  - IM
MH  - Body Mass Index
MH  - Child
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - *Diet, Mediterranean
MH  - Feeding Behavior
MH  - Female
MH  - Greece/epidemiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Overweight/epidemiology
MH  - Parents
MH  - *Pediatric Obesity/epidemiology/prevention & control
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Mediterranean diet
OT  - childhood obesity
OT  - childhood overweight
OT  - parents
OT  - public health
EDAT- 2020/10/16 06:00
MHDA- 2021/10/26 06:00
CRDT- 2020/10/15 20:08
PHST- 2020/10/16 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/10/26 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/10/15 20:08 [entrez]
AID - 10.1089/chi.2020.0228 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Child Obes. 2020 Dec;16(8):571-578. doi: 10.1089/chi.2020.0228. Epub 2020 Oct 15.