PMID- 37880648
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20231027
LR  - 20231122
IS  - 1471-2458 (Electronic)
IS  - 1471-2458 (Linking)
VI  - 23
IP  - 1
DP  - 2023 Oct 25
TI  - Changes of anthropometric indicators of lithuanian first-graders in 2008-2019 
      according to International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) and World Health 
      Organization (WHO) definitions.
PG  - 2097
LID - 10.1186/s12889-023-17031-6 [doi]
LID - 2097
AB  - INTRODUCTION: The monitoring of children's growth plays a crucial role in 
      assessing their growth patterns and indicating their weight status. Overweight 
      and obesity, determined by cut-offs of body mass index (BMI), are most commonly 
      associated with unhealthy nutrition, non-communicable diseases, and other health 
      disorders. The World Health Organization (WHO) initiated the WHO European 
      Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) to measure routinely trends in 
      children's anthropometric changes, which allow intercountry comparisons within 
      the European Region. Lithuania joined the COSI initiative. Our study aims to 
      evaluate and compare underweight, normal and elevated weight (overweight and 
      obesity) changes of Lithuanian first-graders during eleven years period. METHODS: 
      This study was composed according to the COSI study protocol, and it compares the 
      five rounds of anthropometric measurements of Lithuanian first-graders 
      (7-8-year-old) from 2008 to 2019. The main analysed variables were weight and 
      height; calculated BMI, weight-for-age (W/A), height-for-age (H/A) and body mass 
      index-for-age (BMI/A) z-scores. Changes of the indicators were evaluated 
      according to the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) cut-offs and WHO child 
      growth standards, grouped by 4 estimates: underweight (thinness), normal weight, 
      overweight and obesity. All comparisons were performed between age groups, gender 
      and COSI round year. RESULTS: The mean values for weight, height, W/A and H/A 
      Z-scores were significantly higher for both age and gender groups when comparing 
      later COSI round years (2016 or 2019) to earlier years (2008-2013, in some cases 
      2016 is included in this range). Time trends of the WHO growth standards and IOTF 
      cut-offs indicate significant decrease among 7-year-old overweight group for boys 
      and girls. Also, a significant decrease was indicated among boys aged 8 years in 
      the overweight group according to the WHO definitions. The only significant 
      increase in trend were expressed in girl's group with obesity aged 8 years 
      according to IOTF cut-offs. CONCLUSION: The prevalence of overweight and obesity 
      of first-grade children in Lithuania indicates positive changes, that is the 
      proportion of children with elevated body weight decreased, during eleven-year 
      period. However, it is important to continue the monitoring of children's growth 
      tendencies.
CI  - (c) 2023. BioMed Central Ltd., part of Springer Nature.
FAU - Vita, Speckauskiene
AU  - Vita S
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2545-0177
AD  - Health Research Institute, Faculty of Public Health, Lithuanian University of 
      Health Sciences, Kaunas, LT47181, Lithuania. vita.speckauskiene@lsmu.lt.
AD  - Department of Physics, Mathematics, and Biophysics, Faculty of Medicine, 
      Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, LT, 50162, Lithuania. 
      vita.speckauskiene@lsmu.lt.
FAU - Justina, Trisauske
AU  - Justina T
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-0710-9784
AD  - Health Research Institute, Faculty of Public Health, Lithuanian University of 
      Health Sciences, Kaunas, LT47181, Lithuania.
FAU - Monika, Grincaite
AU  - Monika G
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1874-5962
AD  - Health Research Institute, Faculty of Public Health, Lithuanian University of 
      Health Sciences, Kaunas, LT47181, Lithuania.
FAU - Vilma, Kriaucioniene
AU  - Vilma K
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-5269-2895
AD  - Health Research Institute, Faculty of Public Health, Lithuanian University of 
      Health Sciences, Kaunas, LT47181, Lithuania.
AD  - Department of Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Public Health, Lithuanian 
      University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, LT47181, Lithuania.
FAU - Ausra, Petrauskiene
AU  - Ausra P
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-9116-0672
AD  - Health Research Institute, Faculty of Public Health, Lithuanian University of 
      Health Sciences, Kaunas, LT47181, Lithuania.
AD  - Department of Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Public Health, Lithuanian 
      University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, LT47181, Lithuania.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20231025
PL  - England
TA  - BMC Public Health
JT  - BMC public health
JID - 100968562
SB  - IM
MH  - Male
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Child
MH  - *Overweight/epidemiology
MH  - *Pediatric Obesity/epidemiology
MH  - Lithuania/epidemiology
MH  - Thinness/epidemiology
MH  - Body Mass Index
MH  - World Health Organization
MH  - Prevalence
PMC - PMC10601166
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Anthropometry
OT  - Changes
OT  - First-graders
OT  - Height
OT  - Obesity
OT  - Overweight
OT  - Weight
COIS- The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
EDAT- 2023/10/26 00:42
MHDA- 2023/10/27 06:42
PMCR- 2023/10/25
CRDT- 2023/10/25 23:57
PHST- 2023/06/06 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/10/20 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/10/27 06:42 [medline]
PHST- 2023/10/26 00:42 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/10/25 23:57 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/10/25 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1186/s12889-023-17031-6 [pii]
AID - 17031 [pii]
AID - 10.1186/s12889-023-17031-6 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - BMC Public Health. 2023 Oct 25;23(1):2097. doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-17031-6.