PMID- 35586804
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20220520
IS  - 2511-2708 (Electronic)
IS  - 2511-2708 (Linking)
VI  - 3
IP  - 3
DP  - 2018 Sep
TI  - Prevalence of underweight, overweight and obesity among children and adolescents 
      in Germany. KiGGS Wave 2 results according to international reference systems.
PG  - 56-69
LID - 10.17886/RKI-GBE-2018-087 [doi]
AB  - In Germany, the reference system according to Kromeyer-Hauschild is usually used 
      to define underweight, overweight and obesity in children and adolescents. 
      International classification systems to describe prevalence are the reference 
      systems of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Obesity Task 
      Force (IOTF). This article reports underweight, overweight and obesity 
      prevalences among children and adolescents according to WHO and IOTF criteria 
      using data from the second wave of the German Health Interview and Examination 
      Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS Wave 2, 2014-2017). According to the 
      WHO reference system, the prevalence of underweight among 5- to 17-year-olds is 
      1.6%, the prevalence of overweight is 26.3% (including obesity) and the 
      prevalence of obesity is 8.8%. According to IOTF, the prevalence of underweight 
      among 3- to 17-year-olds is 10.0%. The prevalence of overweight (including 
      obesity) is 19.3% and the prevalence of obesity is 4.7%. From a public health 
      point of view, underweight as an indicator of malnutrition plays a rather minor 
      role in Germany. The prevalence of overweight according to WHO is three quarters 
      higher and one quarter higher according to IOTF than the national reference. When 
      comparing the international reference systems, the WHO prevalence is one third 
      higher than IOTF prevalence. According to national and international reference 
      systems, no further increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity is 
      observed, but the prevalence remain at a high level.
CI  - (c) Robert Koch Institute. All rights reserved unless explicitly granted.
FAU - Schienkiewitz, Anja
AU  - Schienkiewitz A
AD  - Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Department of Epidemiology and Health Monitoring.
FAU - Damerow, Stefan
AU  - Damerow S
AD  - Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Department of Epidemiology and Health Monitoring.
FAU - Rosario, Angelika Schaffrath
AU  - Rosario AS
AD  - Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Department of Epidemiology and Health Monitoring.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20180919
PL  - Germany
TA  - J Health Monit
JT  - Journal of health monitoring
JID - 101757730
PMC - PMC8848779
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - HEALTH MONITORING
OT  - INTERNATIONAL REFERENCE SYSTEMS
OT  - IOTF
OT  - OBESITY
OT  - OVERWEIGHT
OT  - UNDERWEIGHT
OT  - WHO
EDAT- 2018/09/19 00:00
MHDA- 2018/09/19 00:01
PMCR- 2018/09/19
CRDT- 2022/05/19 02:32
PHST- 2022/05/19 02:32 [entrez]
PHST- 2018/09/19 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/09/19 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 2018/09/19 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.17886/RKI-GBE-2018-087 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - J Health Monit. 2018 Sep 19;3(3):56-69. doi: 10.17886/RKI-GBE-2018-087. 
      eCollection 2018 Sep.