Prevalence of overweight and obesity in 3-to-10-year-old children: assessment of different cut-off criteria WHO-IOTF

This study compares the prevalence of overweight and obesity between WHO/IOTF criteria. A total of 17,277 Portuguese children aged 3-10 years old were analysed. The prevalences of overweight-obesity were higher at WHO classification (19.8%-20.7%) than at IOTF classification (8.2%-16.1%), (p<0.001...

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Autor principal: Gama, Augusta (author)
Outros Autores: Marques, Vitor Rosado (author), Rodrigues, Aristides M. Machado (author), Nogueira, Helena (author), Mourão, Isabel (author), Padez, Cristina (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2020
Assuntos:
Childhood obesity
obesity
overweight
pre-school children
WHO-IOTF references
Body Mass Index
Child
Child, Preschool
Female
Humans
Male
Prevalence
World Health Organization
Obesity
Overweight
Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10316/101352
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:estudogeral.sib.uc.pt:10316/101352

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