Centiles of Body Mass Index for Dutch Children Aged 0-20 Years in 1980--a Baseline to Assess Recent Trends in Obesity

Overview

Journal Ann Hum Biol

Specialty Biology

Date 1999 Aug 26

PMID 10462152

Citations 33

Authors

T J Cole

M J Roede

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Abstract

Objective: To document the distribution of body mass index (BMI) in Holland in 1980 when obesity was uncommon.

Design: Nationally representative growth survey.

Subjects: Forty-one-thousand boys and girls age 0-20 years.

Method: BMI centiles based on the original height and weight data were derived using the LMS method.

Results: Median BMI showed the familiar pattern of a rise in the first year, followed by a fall, then a second rise after 6 years. The level of overweight was less than for children from the USA, France and Norway measured at the same time or earlier.

Conclusions: Dutch children in 1980 were relatively free of obesity, so the BMI centiles are a suitable baseline to monitor international trends in obesity since then.

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