Prevalence of overweight and obesity from 5 to 19 years of age in Gothenburg, Sweden.
childhood obesity
population based study
school health care
Journal
Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992)
ISSN: 1651-2227
Titre abrégé: Acta Paediatr
Pays: Norway
ID NLM: 9205968
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
12 2021
12 2021
Historique:
revised:
22
08
2021
received:
23
04
2021
accepted:
30
08
2021
pubmed:
1
9
2021
medline:
15
12
2021
entrez:
31
8
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The aim of this study was to present prevalence data for overweight and obesity across school age in a large, recent, population-based cohort of children in Gothenburg, Sweden. We included 66,807 children (48.5% girls) aged 5-18.9 years who had their height and weight measured in school health care 2015-2018. The BMI values were categorised according to the age-dependent cut-offs for overweight and obesity from the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF). Overall, the prevalence of overweight and obesity for girls and boys was 18.1% and 18.0%, respectively. We observed increasing proportions of overweight (girls 11.5-17.1% and boys 8.4-17.4%) and obesity (girls 3.0-4.2% and boys 2.7-6.1%) with increasing age (p < 0.001 for trend in both sexes). Moreover, girls had higher prevalence of overweight during ages 5.0 to 8.9 years compared with boys (p < 0.001), while boys had higher prevalence of obesity 15.0-18.9 years compared with girls (p < 0.001). In conclusion, we demonstrate increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity across the entire school age range, as well as differences in prevalences between boys and girls, in a population-based sample of 67,000 children in Gothenburg city, Sweden. Continuous monitoring of schoolchildren, together with effective preventive measures, is crucial to curb the obesity epidemic and its consequences.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
3349-3355Subventions
Organisme : Swedish Research Council
ID : JMK: 2018-02597
Organisme : Swedish Research Council
ID : CO: 2016-01001
Organisme : Heart-Lung Foundation
ID : JMK: 20190624
Organisme : Heart-Lung Foundation
ID : 20190404
Organisme : ALF-agreement
ID : JMK: ALFGBG-723791
Organisme : ALF-agreement
ID : CO: ALFGBG-720331
Organisme : Lundberg Foundation
ID : CO: 2017-0081
Organisme : Torsten Söderberg Foundation
ID : CO: M65/15
Organisme : Novo Nordisk Foundation
ID : CO: NNF180C0033898
Organisme : Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
ID : CO: KAW2015.0317
Commentaires et corrections
Type : CommentIn
Informations de copyright
© 2021 The Authors. Acta Paediatrica published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Foundation Acta Paediatrica.
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