BACKGROUND Obesity has become a major health problem among children and adolescents worldwide. This study aimed to examine the trends of overweight and obesity among childhood in China and assess their associations with family income, dietary intake, and physical activity (PA) between 1997 and 2009. METHODS Two waves of cross-sectional data of Chinese children and adolescents aged 7-17 years ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) (Europe) has asked that International Union Against Sexually Transmitted Infections (IUSTI) publicises the urgent work of the task force. The first meeting was held in Copenhagen on 23–24 February 1998, the second meeting was held in Vilnius on 22–23 September 1998. The unprecedented rise in syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in large par...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) (Europe) has asked that International Union Against Sexually Transmitted Infections (IUSTI) publicises the urgent work of the task force. The first meeting was held in Copenhagen on 23–24 February 1998, the second meeting was held in Vilnius on 22–23 September 1998. The unprecedented rise in syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in large par...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) (Europe) has asked that International Union Against Sexually Transmitted Infections (IUSTI) publicises the urgent work of the task force. The first meeting was held in Copenhagen on 23–24 February 1998, the second meeting was held in Vilnius on 22–23 September 1998. The unprecedented rise in syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in large par...

BACKGROUND Obesity in children and adolescents is a major public health problem in many countries including Thailand However the use of different growth references applied to the data could contribute to the difference in magnitude of problem. OBJECTIVE To examine the prevalence rate of overweight and obesity among Thai children and adolescents between 1995 and 2012. MATERIAL AND METHOD Rel...

BACKGROUND Previous study revealed that the link between dental caries and obesity has been controversial. The purpose of this research is to investigate the association between dental caries and obesity among primary school children in Wannan area, China. METHODS A cross-sectional study was designed to collect the routine health screening data for primary school children aged 5-14 years in W...

BACKGROUND Body Mass Index Italian reference data are available for clinical and/or epidemiological use, but no study compared the ability of this system to classify overweight and obesity and detect subjects with clustered cardiometabolic risk factors with international standards. Therefore our aim was to assess 1) the agreement among the Italian Society for Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabeto...

BACKGROUND In recent years, obesity has become a major public health problem worldwide. It has been estimated that 8% of children are obese. This study evaluates the overall prevalence of obesity in primary students in recent years. METHODS Publications from 2011 and 2015 on the obesity prevalence among primary school students aged 6 to 12 in China were retrieved from the databases PubMed and...

Obesity is among the most important public health problems in developed countries and a risk factor associated with the development of the main chronic diseases. The increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents seen in the past two decades is particularly worrying. Body mass index (BMI, weight in kilograms/height in meters squared) is the parameter that best defin...

Childhood obesity is a medical and social problem in Japan. The number of obese children has been increasing steadily since 1980 according to a survey on school health statistics. However, more simple and reliable criteria for assessment of obesity in children are required. The aim of this study was to establish gender- and age-specific body mass index (BMI) cutoff values for evaluation of obes...