Prevalence of overweight and obesity in British children: cohort study

BMJ 1999;319:1039-1039 ( 16 October )

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Prevalence of overweight and obesity in British children: cohort study

John J Reilly, senior lecturer ^a, Ahmad R Dorosty, research student ^a, Pauline M Emmett, nutritionist ^b.

^a University of Glasgow Department of Human Nutrition, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow G3 8SJ, ^b ALSPAC Study Team, Unit of Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, Institute of Child Health, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TH

Correspondence to: Dr Reilly jjr2y@clinmed.gla.ac.uk

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Estimates of the prevalence of obesity among children are necessary so that the need for preventive measures can be assessed,secular trends monitored, and high risk population groups identified.¹The aim of this study was therefore to provide current estimatesof the prevalence of obesity among Britishchildren.

Subjects, methods, and results

Subjects consisted of a birth cohort randomly selected from a larger geographically defined total population cohort born inthe Bristol-Avon area in 1991-2. The cohort has been describedelsewhere² and is broadly representative of children in theUnited Kingdom. Height (to 0.1 cm, measured with a Leicester heightmeter) and weight in underwear (to 0.1 kg, measured with Secascales) were measured in children at 24, 49, and 61 months ofage.

There is a consensus that childhood obesity should be defined by using the body mass index (weight (kg)/(height (m))²), ¹ ³ a simple proxy for body fatness that is interpretedrelative to population reference data. ¹ ³ ⁴ The following. . . [Full text of this article]

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