Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: international survey

By T. Cole, M. Bellizzi, K. Flegal, W. Dietz. British medical journal, 2000

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Subfields: Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Worldwide trends in childhood overweight and obesity. (2006, background): “Currently there are two international references, the WHO and the International Obesity TaskForce (IOTF) references (17,21).”
How Many Steps/Day Are Enough? (2004, background): “[48]Since childhood obesity is higher in the US than in the UK,[49]it does not make sense to set a step index lower than current norm references.”
Extended international (IOTF) body mass index cut‐offs for thinness, overweight and obesity (2012, background): “…8 December 2011; revised 14 March 2012; accepted 19 March 2012 What is already known about this subject • The widely used international (IOTF) childhood BMI cut-offs for overweight, obesity and thinness (Cole et al., 2000; 2007) are based on and linked to the corresponding adult BMI cut-offs.”
Systematic review and meta-analyses of risk factors for childhood overweight identifiable during infancy (2012, methodology): “The I 2 statistic was used to explain the between-study heterogeneity (0 – 100%), with higher percentage variation suggesting more heterogeneity or differences among studies.”
The worldwide obesity epidemic. (2001, methodology): “The composite percentile cutoff points chosen from the six datasets are now used in many parts of the world (15).”
Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents (2014, background): “The International Obesity Task Force has developed an international standard growth chart which enables comparison of prevalence globally (7).”
Beyond body mass index (2001, background): “The recent extension of the adult cut-off values to childhood attempted to use an ethnically diverse database for its derivation, but the authors stressed the lack of appropriate data from Africans (16).”
Vitamin B12 and folate concentrations during pregnancy and insulin resistance in the offspring: the Pune Maternal Nutrition Study (2007, methodology): “Maternal nutrition during pregnancy and offspring size, body composition and HOMA-R at 6 years At 6 years, the children were light, short and had a low BMI compared with an international (UK) reference [22] (Table 2); none were overweight or obese as defined by International Obesity Task Force [ 23 ”
Objectively measured physical activity and sedentary time in youth: the International children’s accelerometry database (ICAD) (2015, methodology): “Body mass index (BMI) was calculated as weight (kg)/height (m)(2) and participants were categorised into normal weight, overweight and obese groups according to age and sex-specific cut points [23].”