Height, weight, and the assessment of obesity in children.

Newens, E M; Goldstein, Harold M.

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“…Jayakar, Sgaramella, Galante, and Pennetti (1978) report an analysis in 7 11 year-olds which gives n = 2-31 for boys and n = 2-41 for girls, a finding not dissimilar to our own. The reason Newens and Goldstein (1972) find smaller coefficients is probably due to the narrower age range of their children, who were all 7-year-olds. We have calculated the value of the index at the upper 90th weight percentile for each height given by Newens and Goldstein in their table 1 when n=2"5.…”

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“…So percentage fat is effectively independent of height in a given age group, which suggests that if obesity is to be assessed by weight, the weight should be first standardized for height, for example by using an obesity index. Newens and Goldstein (1972), using very large numbers of children, show that the proportion of children classified as obese by an obesity index depends on height, especially at the extremes of the height range. The power transformation principally considered by those authors is W/H n where n is 1.70 for boys and 1.75 for girls.…”

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Obesity in schoolchildren and their parents

Keiller

Colley

Carpenter

1979

Annals of Human Biology

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The height, weight and left triceps skinfold thickness of 2190 schoolchildren were measured and the heights and weights of their parents obtained from a postal questionnaire. Power-type obesity indices were used to correct weight for height in parents and children. Preliminary analysis of the distribution of obesity using arbitrarily chosen cut-off points to define the obese, normal and lean parent indicated the presence of a group of 'super-obese' families. The spline technique was used to analyse these data as continuous variables, and showed that the 'super-obese' group of families was too small to be of any practical importance. The relationship between obesity in parents and their children has also been investigated using the spline regression technique. The results show that the relationship is linear but that only 6% of the total variation of observed obesity in children is attributable to variation in the parents' reported obesity. However, a structural analysis indicates a direct relationship between obesity of parents and children. This is obscured in the regression analysis by the large within-subject variability of observed obesity in both parents and children.

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Obesity in schoolchildren and their parents

Keiller

Colley

Carpenter

1979

Annals of Human Biology

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“…After adjustment had been made for sex and social class, because these have independent effects on height and weight, it was found that the mean height of children in the four groups did not differ significantly. 'Relative weight', that is, the weight expected for any given height, derived from the whole sample, was examined at 11 years of age to give a crude index of nutrition (Newens and Goldstein, 1972). Children with current attacks of asthma and/or wheezy bronchitis in whom the attacks occurred at least monthly were of significantly lower mean relative weight than children in the other three groups; on average about 4% lighter than expected.…”

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A national study of asthma in childhood.

Peckham¹,

Butler²

1978

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health

133

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SUMMARY A history of asthma was obtained in 3.5 % of a representative national sample of children aged years. A further 8.8% had a history of wheezy bronchitis. In the 12 months before the interview, 2% had experienced attacks of asthma and a further 2.9 % attacks of wheezy bronchitis. Both conditions were significantly more common among boys than girls, and a history of asthma was reported more frequently among children from non-manual than from manual social classes. Children with frequent attacks of wheezing had lower mean relative weights. A history of eczema and hay fever was more frequently discovered in children with reported asthma than in those with wheezy bronchitis, whereas migraine or recurrent headaches, recurrent abdominal pain, and recurrent throat or ear infections were more commonly associated with wheezy bronchitis than with asthma. The modified Rutter home behaviour scale, which reflects the parental view of the child's behaviour, was significantly raised among children with a history of wheezing, but their school behaviour as judged by the Bristol social adjustment guide showed no such difference. In spite of increased absence from school because ofillness, no differences were found in educational attainment between children with a history of asthma or wheezy bronchitis and those with neither condition.

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“…22 23 This study's sample size was sufficiently large and representative to allow the estimation of standard weights from its own data. In the adult years (20,26, and 36 years) body mass index was used, which is a fixed rather than BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL VOLUME 293 2 AUGUST 1986 age specific standard.…”

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Onset of obesity in a 36 year birth cohort study.

Braddon¹,

Rodgers²,

Wadsworth³

et al. 1986

BMJ

257

144

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A large national cohort of children studied from birth to 36 years was used to test the predictive value of childhood obesity for obesity in adult life. Only 21% (39) of obese 36 year olds had been obese at age 11 years, and even when associated social factors were taken into account the correctly predicted percentage was much lower than the prediction rate achieved using body mass data from age 26 years. The comparatively poor predictive value of childhood obesity and the associations of adult obesity with educational achievements and socioeconomic circumstances of family of origin emphasise the need for encouraging good nutritional and exercise habits ratherthan placingundue emphasis on the control of childhood obesity.

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Height, weight, and the assessment of obesity in children.

Cited by 23 publications

References 20 publications

Obesity in schoolchildren and their parents

Obesity in schoolchildren and their parents

A national study of asthma in childhood.

Onset of obesity in a 36 year birth cohort study.

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