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  • Wijnhoven, T. M. A.Noncommunicable Diseases and Health Promotion, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark (author)

WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative 2008: weight, height and body mass index in 6-9-year-old children

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  • 2012-09-21
  • Wiley,2013

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  • LIBRIS-ID:oai:gup.ub.gu.se/176157
  • https://gup.ub.gu.se/publication/176157URI
  • https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2047-6310.2012.00090.xDOI
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  • Language:English

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  • Funding Agencies:Flemish Agency for Care and Health and Ministry of EducationMinistry of Health, National Centre of Public Health Protection and Regional Inspectorates for Protection and Control of Public HealthWHO Regional Office for Europe and Producer ZepterDepartment of Health and ChildrenMinistry of HealthWHO Regional Office for EuropeLithuanian State Science and Studies FoundationScience Foundation of Kaunas University of MedicinePrimary Health Care DepartmentNorwegian Institute of Public HealthDirectorate of Health and Social AffairsRegional Health DirectoratesMinistry of Education and SportDirectorate-General for Health of FranceGeneral Health Directorate of PortugalNational Institute of Health in Lisbon, PortugalNational Institute of Health in Rome, ItalyKarolinska Institutet in Huddinge, Sweden
  • Background Nutritional surveillance in school-age children, using measured weight and height, is not common in the European Region of the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO Regional Office for Europe has therefore initiated the WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative. Objective To present the anthropometric results of data collected in 2007/2008 and to investigate whether there exist differences across countries and between the sexes. Methods Weight and height were measured in 69-year-old children in 12 countries. Prevalence of overweight, obesity, stunting, thinness and underweight as well as mean Z-scores of anthropometric indices of height, weight and body mass index were calculated. Results A total of 168832 children were included in the analyses and a school participation rate of more than 95% was obtained in 8 out of 12 countries. Stunting, underweight and thinness were rarely prevalent. However, 19.349.0% of boys and 18.442.5% of girls were overweight (including obesity and based on the 2007 WHO growth reference).The prevalence of obesity ranged from 6.0 to 26.6% among boys and from 4.6 to 17.3% among girls. Multi-country comparisons suggest the presence of a northsouth gradient with the highest level of overweight found in southern European countries. Conclusions Overweight among 69-year-old children is a serious public health concern and its variation across the European Region highly depends on the country. Comparable monitoring of child growth is possible across Europe and should be emphasized in national policies and implemented as part of action plans.

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  • van Raaij, J. M. A.Centre for Nutrition and Health, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands; Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands (author)
  • Spinelli, A.National Centre for Epidemiology, Surveillance and Health Promotion, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy (author)
  • Rito, A. I.Food and Nutrition Department, National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge IP, Lisbon, Portugal (author)
  • Hovengen, R.Department of Health Statistics, National Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway,National Obesity Observatory, Oxford, UK (author)
  • Kunesova, M.Obesity Unit, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic (author)
  • Starc, G.Faculty of Sport, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia (author)
  • Rutter, H. (author)
  • Sjöberg, Agneta,1956Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för medicin, avdelningen för samhällsmedicin och folkhälsa,Institutionen för kost- och idrottsvetenskap,Institute of Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine,Department of Food and Nutrition, and Sport Science,Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Public Health Epidemiology Unit, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; Department of Food and Nutrition, and Sport Science, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden(Swepub:gu)xsjoag (author)
  • Petrauskiene, A.Academy of Medicine, Faculty of Public Health, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania (author)
  • O'Dwyer, U.Department of Health and Children, Dublin, Ireland (author)
  • Petrova, S.Department of Food and Nutrition, National Centre of Public Health and Analysis, Sofia, Bulgaria (author)
  • Sant'Angelo, V. F.Primary Health Care Department, Floriana, Malta (author)
  • Wauters, M.Flemish Agency for Care and Health, Flemish Ministry of Welfare, Public Health and Family, Brussels, Belgium (author)
  • Yngve, Agneta,1953-Karolinska Institutet(Swepub:oru)aye (author)
  • Rubana, I. M.Public Health Agency, Riga, Latvia (author)
  • Breda, J.Noncommunicable Diseases and Health Promotion, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark (author)
  • Noncommunicable Diseases and Health Promotion, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen Ø, DenmarkCentre for Nutrition and Health, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, the Netherlands; Division of Human Nutrition, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands (creator_code:org_t)

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