Year: 2021
Title: Thinness, overweight, and obesity in 6‐ to 9‐year‐old children from 36 countries: The World Health Organization European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative—COSI 2015–2017
Author: Spinelli, Angela
Author: Buoncristiano, Marta
Author: Nardone, Paola
Author: Starc, Gregor
Author: Hejgaard, Tatjana
Author: Júlíusson, Petur Benedikt
Author: Fismen, Anne‐Siri
Author: Weghuber, Daniel
Author: Musić Milanović, Sanja
Author: García‐Solano, Marta
Author: Rutter, Harry
Author: Rakovac, Ivo
Author: Cucu, Alexandra
Author: Brinduse, Lacramioara Aurelia
Author: Rito, Ana Isabel
Author: Kovacs, Viktoria Anna
Author: Heinen, Mirjam M.
Author: Nurk, Eha
Author: Mäki, Päivi
Author: Abdrakhmanova, Shynar
Author: Rakhmatulleoeva, Sanavbar
Author: Duleva, Vesselka
Author: Farrugia Sant'Angelo, Victoria
Author: Fijałkowska, Anna
Author: Gualtieri, Andrea
Author: Sacchini, Elena
Author: Hassapidou, Maria
Author: Hyska, Jolanda
Author: Kelleher, Cecily C.
Author: Kujundžić, Enisa
Author: Kunešová, Marie
Author: Markidou Ioannidou, Eliza
Author: Ostojic, Sergej M.
Author: Peterkova, Valentina
Author: Petrauskienė, Aušra
Author: Popović, Stevo
Author: Pudule, Iveta
Author: Russell Jonsson, Kenisha
Author: Dal‐Re Saavedra, Maria Ángeles
Author: Salanave, Benoît
Author: Shengelia, Lela
Author: Spiroski, Igor
Author: Tanrygulyyeva, Maya
Author: Tichá, Ľubica
Author: Usupova, Zhamilya
Author: Ozcebe, Lütfiye Hilal
Author: Abildina, Akbota
Author: Schindler, Karin
Author: Weber, Martin W.
Author: Filipović Hadžiomeragić, Aida
Author: Melkumova, Marina
Author: Stojisavljević, Dragana
Author: Boymatova, Khadichamo
Author: Williams, Julianne
Author: Breda, João
Abstract: In 2015–2017, the fourth round of the World Health Organization (WHO) European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) was conducted in 36 countries. National representative samples of children aged 6–9 (203,323) were measured by trained staff, with similar equipment and using a standardized protocol. This paper assesses the children's body weight status and compares the burden of childhood overweight, obesity, and thinness in Northern, Eastern, and Southern Europe and Central Asia. The results show great geographic variability in height, weight, and body mass index. On average, the children of Northern Europe were the tallest, those of Southern Europe the heaviest, and the children living in Central Asia the lightest and the shortest. Overall, 28.7% of boys and 26.5% of girls were overweight (including obesity) and 2.5% and 1.9%, respectively, were thin according to the WHO definitions. The prevalence of obesity varied from 1.8% of boys and 1.1% of girls in Tajikistan to 21.5% and 19.2%, respectively, in Cyprus, and tended to be higher for boys than for girls. Levels of thinness, stunting, and underweight were relatively low, except in Eastern Europe (for thinness) and in Central Asia. Despite the efforts to halt it, unhealthy weight status is still an important problem in the WHO European Region.
Publisher: Wiley
Relation: Obesity Reviews
Identifier: oai:repository.ukim.mk:20.500.12188/14220
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/14220Identifier: 10.1111/obr.13214
Identifier: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/obr.13214Identifier: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/obr.13214Identifier: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/obr.13214
