Thus, BMI is an appropriate screening tool but must be interpreted in the context of a physical examination that confirms excess adiposity in making the diagnoses of overweight or obesity. Moreover, the BMI is not a reliable indicator of the impact of excess adiposity on health, which can ...
Obesity was traditionally defined as an increase in body weight that was greater than 20 percent of an individual’s ideal body weight—the weight associated with the lowest risk of death, as determined by certain factors, such as age, height, and gender. Based on these factors,overweightcould...
Standard definition of child overweight and obesity worldwide Authors' standard compares well with WHO standard 下载积分: 3000 内容提示: Decline in teenage smoking with rise in mobile phone ownership:hypothesisEditor — The good news is that the seem-ingly inexorable rise in teenage smoking in...
In the 15 studies included in the meta-analysis,12,13,16-28 all data on obesity and overweight were expressed in terms of BMI. Overweight was defined as BMI between 25 and 29.99 and obesity, as BMI of 30 or more, according to the World Health Organization definition.38,44 For examination...
Objective: To develop an internationally acceptable definition of child overweight and obesity, specifying the measurement, the reference population, and the age and sex specific cut off points. Design: International survey of six large nationally representative cross sectional growth studies. Setting: Bra...
BACKGROUND :Overweight and obesity is a severe global health issue in both developed and developing nations. This study aims to estimate the national prevalence of overweight and obesity among school-aged children in Vietnam. METHOD :We conducted a national cross-sectional study on 2788 children ag...
People are generally considered obese when their body mass index (BMI), a measurement obtained by dividing a person's weight by the square of the person's height—despite known allometric inaccuracies—is over 30 kg/m2; the range 25–30 kg/m2 is defined as overweight. Fat Any of a group...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of overweight, obesity and underweight in children from Ukraine. A cross-sectional study was performed on data collected from a representative sample of Ukraine children (13,739 children (boys 48%, gir
Introduction An increasing number of clinical and epidemiological studies suggest a possible association between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and obesity/overweight. However, overall evidence is mixed. Given the public health relevance of ADHD and obesity/overweight, understanding whether an...
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