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 Gutierrez-Gonzalez, 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 http://hdl.handle.net/10668/18358
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10668/18358
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NO The authors gratefully acknowledge support through a grant from theRussian Government in the context of the WHO European Office forthe Prevention and Control of NCDs. The Ministries of health ofAustria, Croatia, Greece, Italy, Malta, Norway, and the Russian Federa-tion provided financial support for the meetings at which the protocol,data collection procedures, and analyses were discussed.Data collection in the countries included in this study was madepossible through funding from: Bulgaria: Ministry of Health, NationalCenter of Public Health and Analyses, and WHO Regional Office forEurope; Czechia: WHO grants AZV MZČR 17-31670 A MZČR-RVO EÚ00023761, World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, andWHO country office; Greece: International Hellenic University andHellenic Medical Association for Obesity; Ireland: Health ServiceExecutive; Italy: Ministry of Health and Italian National Institute ofHealth; Latvia: Ministry of Health and Centre for Disease Preventionand Control; Lithuania: Science Foundation of Lithuanian University ofHealth Sciences, Lithuanian Science Council, and WHO; Norway:Ministry of Health and Norwegian Institute of Public Health; Portugal:Ministry of Health Institutions, the National Institute of Health, Direc-torate General of Health, Regional Health Directorates, and the kindtechnical support from the Center for Studies and Research on SocialDynamics and Health (CEIDSS); Slovenia: Ministry of Education andScience and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia within the SLOfitsurveillance system; and Spain: Spanish Agency for Food Safety andNutrition (AESAN).
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RD Apr 11, 2025