Background: The International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) has developed new cut-offs for defining overweight and obesity in children. The cut-offs have been developed for children 2-18 years of age. Objective: To develop a simplified formula for rapid assessment of overweight in school going children. Methods: We used the extended IOTF standards used for assessment of overweight and obesity among...

BACKGROUND Adolescence is a period of gender-specific physical changes, during which eating habits develop. To better understand what factors determine unhealthy eating habits such as dieting to lose weight, skipping meals, and consumption of unhealthy foods, we studied how physical measurements and body perception relate to eating habits in boys and girls, before and during adolescence. METH...

BACKGROUND This study was designed to investigate the relation between health-related physical fitness and weight status in Hong Kong adolescents. METHODS 3,204 students aged 12-18 years participated in the Hong Kong Student Obesity Surveillance (HKSOS) project in 2006-2007. Anthropometric measures (height, weight) and health-related fitness (push-up, sit-up, sit-and-reach, 9-minute run) were...

OBJECTIVE To determine the association between measures of adiposity (body mass index and waist circumference) and risk factors for heart disease, type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease, and the clustering of risk factors in middle adolescence. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Secondary schools in Sydney. PARTICIPANTS Grade 10 students (N = 496; 58.4% boys; mean [SD] age, 15.4 [0.4] ye...

Objective To examine the association between obesity and high blood pressure (BP) in Chinese children and adolescents. Methods Body mass index (BMI) and blood pressure measurements of 197 191 children aged 7-17 years were obtained from a Chinese national survey in 2010. Obesity and high BP were defined according to the reference values for Chinese children. Adjusted odds ratios (ORs) and 95% co...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of overweight and obesity in school children in Eastern Turkey. METHODS This study included 9048 school children aged 6-18 years. The subjects were classified as overweight and obese, according to the International Obesity Task Force. RESULTS We found prevalence of overweight of 11.1% in the studied population. It was detected t...

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of overweight and obesity in a sample of South African children aged 6 - 13 years. DESIGN Random sampling of schools within each provincial and socio-economic category. SETTING Primary school children from 5 South African provinces. SUBJECTS 10 195 (5 611 male and 4 584 female) primary school children. OUTCOME MEASURE Height and weight were measure...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of attentional distraction on field running distance and activity intensity during an exercise session in normal-weight and overweight youngsters and to investigate potential mediators. Fifty-three 12-14 yr-old boys participated twice in a 12-min running test and a 20-min exercise session, once with attentional distraction (by listerning t...

BACKGROUND Overweight and obesity among adolescents are increasing worldwide. Risk factors include dietary intake characteristics and high levels of physical inactivity. In Sweden, few large comprehensive population-based surveys of dietary intake and lifestyle among adolescents have been carried out. Thus, the purpose of the current study was to describe dietary intake and food choices as well...

conclusions the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children under 5 years is high. overweight and obesity should be considered an epidemic and serious health problem in tehran. they certainly require more attention and intervention. results the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children were 12% and 23.7% respectively. the prevalence of overweight was significantly higher in girls th...