RT Journal Article
T1 Childhood overweight and obesity in Europe: Changes from 2007 to 2017.
A1 Buoncristiano, Marta
A1 Spinelli, Angela
A1 Williams, Julianne
A1 Nardone, Paola
A1 Rito, Ana Isabel
A1 García-Solano, Marta
A1 Grøholt, Else Karin
A1 Gutiérrez-González, Enrique
A1 Klepp, Knut Inge
A1 Starc, Gregor
A1 Petrauskienė, Aušra
A1 Kunešová, Marie
A1 Hassapidou, Maria
A1 Pérez-Farinós, Napoleón
A1 Pudule, Iveta
A1 Kelleher, Cecily C
A1 Duleva, Vesselka
A1 Rakovac, Ivo
A1 Chatterjee, Saion
A1 Breda, João
K1 children
K1 obesity
K1 overweight
K1 prevalence
K1 temporal trend
AB The Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) routinely measures height and weight of primary school children aged 6-9 years and calculates overweight and obesity prevalence within the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region using a standard methodology. This study examines the trends in the prevalence of overweight and obesity from the first round of COSI carried out in 2007/2008 to the latest of 2015/2017 in 11 European countries in which data were collected for at least three rounds. In total 303,155 children were measured. In general, the prevalence of overweight and obesity among boys and girls decreased in countries with high prevalence (Southern Europe) and remained stable or slightly increased in Northern European and Eastern European countries included in the analysis. Among boys, the highest decrease in overweight (including obesity) was observed in Portugal (from 40.5% in 2007/2008 to 28.4 in 2015/2017) and in Greece for obesity (from 30.5% in 2009/2010 to 21.7% in 2015/2017). Lithuania recorded the strongest increase in the proportion of boys with overweight (from 24.8% to 28.5%) and obesity (from 9.4% to 12.2%). The trends were similar for boys and girls in most countries. Several countries in Europe have successfully implemented policies and interventions to counteract the increase of overweight and obesity, but there is still much to be done.
YR 2021
FD 2021-08-10
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10668/24858
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10668/24858
LA en
DS RISalud
RD Apr 6, 2025