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Prevalence of Severe Obesity among Primary School Children in 21 European Count...
Spinelli, Angela; Buoncristiano, Marta; Kovacs, Viktoria Anna; Yngve, Agneta; Spiroski, Igor; Obreja, Galina; Starc, Gregor; Pérez, NapoleónThe 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 ch...
Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from ...
Ezzati, Majid; Bentham, James; Di Cesare, Mariachiara; Bilano, Ver; Bixby, Honor; Zhou, Bin; Stevens, Gretchen A.; Riley, Leanne M.; Taddei, CristinaMade available in DSpace on 2018-11-26T20:04:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2017-12-16; Wellcome Trust; AstraZeneca; Background Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and a comprehensive set of BMI categories that cove...
Malnutrition among older adults living in Portuguese nursing homes : the PEN-3S...
Madeira, Teresa; Plácido, Catarina Peixoto; Santos, Nuno Sousa; Santos, Osvaldo; Alarcão, Violeta; Goulão, Beatriz; Mendonça, NunoObjective: To characterise the nutritional status and to identify malnutritionassociated variables of older adults living in Portuguese nursing homes. Design: Cross-sectional study. Data on demographic and socio-economic characteristics, self-reported morbidity, eating-related problems, nutritional status, cognitive function, depression symptoms, loneliness feelings and functional status were collected by train...
Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from ...
Abarca-Gómez, Leandra; Abdeen, Ziad A~.; Hamid, Zargar Abdul; Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen M.; Acosta-Cazares, Benjamin; Acuin, Cecilia; Adams, Robert J.Background Underweight, overweight, and obesity in childhood and adolescence are associated with adverse health consequences throughout the life-course. Our aim was to estimate worldwide trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and a comprehensive set of BMI categories that cover underweight to obesity in children and adolescents, and to compare trends with those of adults. Methods We pooled 2416 population-based s...
WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative: Impact of Type of Cloth...
Wijnhoven, Trudy M.A.; van Raaij, Joop M.A.; Spinelli, Angela; Yngve, Agneta; Lissner, Lauren; Spiroski, Igor; Farrugia Sant'Angelo, VictoriaBackground. The World Health Organization European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) conducted examinations in 6–9-year-old children from 16 countries in the first two rounds of data collection. Allowing participating countries to adhere to their local legal requirements or adapt to other circumstances required developing a flexible protocol for anthropometric procedures. Objectives. (1) Review i...
National survey of the portuguese elderly nutritional status : study protocol
Madeira, Teresa; Plácido, Catarina Peixoto; Goulão, Beatriz; Mendonça, Nuno; Alarcão, Violeta; Santos, Nuno; de Oliveira, Rita Machado; Yngve, AgnetaBackground: Worldwide we are facing a serious demographic challenge due to the dramatic growth of the population over 60 years. It is expected that the proportion of this population will nearly double from 12 to 22 %, between 2015 and 2050. This demographic shift comes with major health and socio-economic concerns. Nutrition is a fundamental determinant of both health and disease and its role in extending a hea...
WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative: associations between sl...
Börnhorst, Claudia; Wijnhoven, Trudy M.A.; Kunešová, Marie; Yngve, Agneta; Rito, Ana I.; Lissner, Lauren; Duleva, Vesselka; Petrauskiene, AusraBACKGROUND: Both sleep duration and screen time have been suggested to affect children's diet, although in different directions and presumably through different pathways. The present cross-sectional study aimed to simultaneously investigate the associations between sleep duration, screen time and food consumption frequencies in children. METHODS: The analysis was based on 10 453 children aged 6-9 years from fiv...
WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative: health-risk behaviours ...
Wijnhoven, Trudy M.A.; van Raaij, Joop M.A.; Yngve, Agneta; Sjöberg, Agneta; Kunešová, Marie; Duleva, Vesselka; Petrauskiene, Ausra; Rito, Ana I.Objective: To assess to what extent eight behavioural health risks related to breakfast and food consumption and five behavioural health risks related to physical activity, screen time and sleep duration are present among schoolchildren, and to examine whether health-risk behaviours are associated with obesity. Design: Cross-sectional design as part of the WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative ...
Promotion of vegetables and fruit consumption of school children - Progreens
Yngve, Agneta; Lynch, Christel; Ehrenblad, Bettina; Lien, Nanna; Klepp, Knut-Inge; Velde, Saskia te; Brug, Johannes; Thorsdottir, Inga
Progreens: promotion of fruit and vegetable intake in school children across Eu...
Bjarnholt, Christel; Yngve, Agneta; Krawinkel, Michael; Kristjansdottir, Asa; Ribic, Hlastan; Almeida, Maria Daniel Vaz de; Franchini, Bela; et al.[abstract]