Childhood weight status: prevalence and combination of overweight and abdominal obesity

• Autor(a) principal: Rangel, Luiz Felipe da Cruz
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Teixeira, Fabiana Costa, Pereira, Flavia Erika Felix, Jorge, Felipe Sampaio, Morales, Anderson Pontes, Ribeiro, Beatriz Gonçalves
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Saúde e Pesquisa (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unicesumar.edu.br/index.php/saudpesq/article/view/7693
• topic: Adiposity; Anthropometry; Body mass index; Schoolchildren; Adiposidade; Antropometria; Escolares; Índice de massa corporal; .

To identify the prevalence of overweight and abdominal obesity in an isolated and combined way in schoolchildren aged 6 to 10 years old. 1267 schoolchildren from Macaé, RJ, and Brazil participated in the study. The anthropometric data analyzed were body mass, height, and waist circumference (WC). The World Health Organization (WHO) criteria were used to define overweight and obesity. Abdominal obesity (AO) was estimated by the waist / height ratio (WHtR) ≥ 0.50. The prevalence of overweight and obesity in schoolchildren was 33.8% and 16.4%, respectively. The prevalence of AO was 22.7%, 11.9% girls and 10.8% boys (p> 0.05). We found that 37.7% of overweight children have AO, being more present among girls when compared to boys (50% vs. 26.3%, respectively; p