Prevalence of Severe Obesity among Primary School Children in 21 European Countries

• Author(s): Spinelli, Angela ; Buoncristiano, Marta ; Kovacs, Viktoria Anna ; Yngve, Agneta ; Spiroski, Igor ; Obreja, Galina ; Starc, Gregor ; Pérez, Napoleón ; Rito, Ana Isabel ; Kunešová, Marie ; Sant'Angelo, Victoria Farrugia ; Meisfjord, Jørgen ; Bergh, Ingunn Holden ; Kelleher, Cecily ; Yardim, Nazan ; Pudule, Iveta ; Petrauskiene, Ausra ; Duleva, Vesselka ; Sjöberg, Agneta ; Gualtieri, Andrea ; Hassapidou, Maria ; Hyska, Jolanda ; Burazeri, Genc ; Petrescu, Constanta Huidumac ; Heinen, Mirjam ; Takacs, Hajnalka ; Zamrazilová, Hana ; Bosi, Tulay Bagci ; Sacchini, Elena ; Pagkalos, Ioannis ; Cucu, Alexandra ; Nardone, Paola ; Gately, Paul ; Williams, Julianne ; Breda, João
• Date: 2019
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/6402
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Nacional de Saúde
• Subject(s): Childhood Obesity; Obesity; Child; Europe; Portugal; Prevalence; Epidemiology; Estilos de Vida e Impacto na Saúde; COSI
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Repositório Científico do Instituto Nacional de Saúde

Description

The World Health Organization (WHO) European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) was established more than 10 years ago to estimate prevalence and monitor changes in overweight and obesity in children aged 6-9 years. Since then, there have been five rounds of data collection in more than 40 countries involving more than half a million children. To date, no comparative studies with data on severe childhood obesity from European countries have been published.