1. Secular trends in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Sicilian schoolchildren aged 11-13 years during the last decade
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Paola Rossetti, Lavinia La Delfa, Sebastiano Squatrito, Cristina Parrino, Roberto Baratta, Lucia Frittitta, Riccardo Vigneri, and Nadia La Spina
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Male ,Rural Population ,Pediatrics ,Anatomy and Physiology ,Urban Population ,Epidemiology ,Cross-sectional study ,Overweight ,Global Health ,Body Mass Index ,Cohort Studies ,Endocrinology ,Pediatric Endocrinology ,Prevalence ,Clinical Epidemiology ,Child ,Pediatric Epidemiology ,Sicily ,Multidisciplinary ,Age Factors ,Child Health ,Epidemiology of Aging ,Socioeconomic Aspects of Health ,Cohort ,Medicine ,Female ,Public Health ,Waist Circumference ,medicine.symptom ,Behavioral and Social Aspects of Health ,Environmental Health ,Research Article ,Cohort study ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Clinical Research Design ,Science ,Childhood obesity ,Thinness ,medicine ,Humans ,Obesity ,Students ,Nutrition ,business.industry ,Body Weight ,Odds ratio ,medicine.disease ,Social Epidemiology ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Physiological Processes ,Energy Metabolism ,business ,Body mass index ,Demography - Abstract
The present study evaluates trends in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in relation to gender and area of residence between two cohorts of students aged 11–13 years in Sicily. The analysis was performed on 1,839 schoolchildren, with 924 and 915 children being studied in 1999–2001 and 2009–2010, respectively. The children who were enrolled during 2009–2010 had significantly higher body mass indexes (BMI), BMI z-scores, and waist circumferences than the children who were studied during 1999–2001 (p
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- 2012