National Growth Charts for BMI among Iranian Children and Adolescents in Comparison with the WHO and CDC Curves

Mohammadi, Mohammad Reza; Mostafavi, Seyed‐Ali; Hooshyari, Zahra; Khaleghi, Ali; Ahmadi, Nastaran; Kamali, Koorosh; Ahmadi, Ameneh; Zarafshan, Hadi

doi:10.1089/chi.2019.0107

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“…The psychiatric comorbidity in this study is similar to previous findings in combined samples of children and adolescents (Jaite et al, 2013;Mohammadi et al, 2020) such that individuals with eating disorders demonstrate greater odds of psychiatric disorders as compared to their peers without eating disorders. Specifically, a recent nationally representative sample in Iran found that the most common comorbid disorders among children and adolescents with eating disorders were OCD, agoraphobia, MDD, ODD, and social phobia.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…While there are many studies that examine psychiatric correlates in adolescents and adults, comorbidity in children younger than 12 is relatively understudied. Previous studies of comorbidity in mixed samples of adolescents and children found similar patterns to that of adults such that mood and anxiety disorders are the most consistently found comorbidities (Jaite, Hoffmann, Glaeske, & Bachmann, 2013;Mammen, Russell, & Russell, 2007;Mohammadi et al, 2020;Tsai et al, 2018). However, these studies examined adolescents and children together, precluding any conclusions about comorbidity in children younger than 12 as compared to older adolescents (Nicholls & Bryant-Waugh, 2009).…”

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confidence: 96%

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Psychiatric comorbidity of eating disorders in children between the ages of 9 and 10

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Blashill

2021

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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Background Eating disorders exhibit high comorbidity with other psychiatric disorders, most notably mood, substance use, and anxiety disorders. However, most studies examining psychiatric comorbidity are conducted in adolescents and adults. Therefore, the comorbidity among children living with eating disorders is unknown. The aim of this study was to characterize co‐occurring psychiatric disorders with eating disorders in a US sample of children aged 9–10 years old utilizing the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study. Methods The analytic sample included 11,718 children aged 9–10 years. Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, and other specified feeding and eating disorder subtype diagnoses were examined. Statistical analyses were conducted using complex sampling. Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals were calculated comparing the likelihood of being diagnosed for a psychiatric disorder when having an eating disorder, as compared to children without an eating disorder, children diagnosed with major depressive disorder, and children diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder using binary logistic regression. Results Co‐occurring psychiatric disorders were substantially higher in children with eating disorders as compared to children without eating disorders, but not as compared to children diagnosed with major depressive disorder or posttraumatic stress disorder. The most common comorbidities for the eating disorder group were anxiety disorders (71.4%), attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (47.9%), disruptive/impulse control disorders (45.0%), mood disorders (29.6%), and obsessive‐compulsive disorder (28.8%), largely in line with previous research. Conclusions This study extends prior research finding high rates of comorbidity in eating disorders, specifically with anxiety, mood, and disruptive/impulse control disorders. Clinicians assessing for psychiatric disorders should be aware that eating disorders can occur in children 9 and 10 years old and are associated with severe comorbidity. Referrals for specialty mental health care should be considered.

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confidence: 87%

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confidence: 96%

Psychiatric comorbidity of eating disorders in children between the ages of 9 and 10

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Blashill

2021

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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“…Asian and African countries such as China, Pakistan, Iran, and Ghana have found greater divergences when comparing their growth patterns to the ones from WHO 2007, and studies conducted in European countries such as Slovakia, Italy, Poland and Portugal indicate the use of the IOTF BMI reference instead of the WHO growth reference for BMI (2007), as it screened overweight and obesity conditions better in their populations (Adom et al, 2020; Iftikhar F I G U R E 3 S and L curves of the five BMI references in boys and in girls. Ma et al, 2010;Minghelli et al, 2014;Mohammadi et al, 2020;Valerio et al, 2017;Woźniacka et al, 2018).…”

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MULT: A new BMI reference to assess nutritional status of multi‐ethnic children and adolescents

Oliveira

Araújo

Severo

et al. 2023

American J Hum Biol

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ObjectivesTo develop a new Body Mass Index (BMI) reference (MULT) based on longitudinal data of multi‐ethnic populations and to compare it to international BMI references.MethodsThe MULT BMI reference was constructed through the LMS method and the Generalized Additive Models for Location Scale and Shape (GAMLSS), with 81 310 observations of 17 505 subjects aged 0–22 years old, from the United Kingdom, Ethiopia, Peru, India, Vietnam, Brazil, and Portugal. Outlier values were removed based on weight z‐scores (population level) and based on BMI z‐scores using the linear mixed effects model (individual level). The MULT M, S and L curves were compared to the ones of the World Health Organization (WHO), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), International Obesity Task Force (IOTF), and Dutch Growth Study (DUTCH). The MULT BMI percentile cutoffs for overweight and obesity were calculated using the adult BMI values of 25 and 30 kg/m2 at 17, 18, 19, and 20 years old.ResultsMULT presented the lowest mean BMI values for the ages 102–240 months for boys and 114–220 months for girls. MULT S values were similar to the WHO and IOTF for children under 60 months of age and the highest during puberty, while the L curve showed to be more symmetric than the other BMI references.ConclusionThe MULT BMI reference was constructed based on recent data of populations from 10 countries, being a good option to assess the nutritional status of multi‐ethnic populations.

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“…When compared to the WHO standard/reference populations, Chinese boys present higher weight values and Chinese girls lower weight values, with significant variations in some age groups, while children and adolescents from Saudi Arabia present higher percentile values. [30][31][32]46,47 Regarding the IOTF growth charts, for the European populations of Slovakia, Italy, Poland and Portugal, they showed the best performance for screening overweight and obesity, while for the population of South Africa they had the best screening for underweight. 38-41.43 Regarding the CDC BMIfor-age growth charts, their values were similar to those of WHO/2007 for the Canadian population and similar to those of the IOTF for the Portuguese population.…”

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Accuracy of international growth charts to assess nutritional status in children and adolescents: a systematic review

Oliveira

Pereira

Melo

et al. 2022

Rev. paul. pediatr.

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Objective: To verify, through a systematic review, the accuracy of nutritional assessment in children and adolescents using the length/height-for-age and BMI-for-age growth charts of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2000), the World Health Organization (WHO) (2006/2007) and the International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) (2012). Data source: We selected articles from the databases Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE), through PubMed, National Library of Medicine and The National Institutes of Health (NIH), Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) and Virtual Health Library (VHL). The following descriptors were used for the search: “Child”, “Adolescent”, “Nutritional Assessment”, “Growth Chart”, “Ethnic Groups”, “Stature by age”, “Body Mass Index”, “Comparison”, “CDC”, “WHO”, and “IOTF”. The selected articles were assessed for quality through the Quality Assessment Tool for Observational Cohort and Cross-Sectional Studies of the NIH. Data synthesis: Thirty-three studies published between 2007 and 2020 were selected and, of these, 20 presented good quality, 12 presented fair quality and one presented poor quality. For children under five years old, the WHO length/height-for-age growth charts were shown appropriate for children from Argentina, South Africa, Brazil, Gabon, Qatar, Pakistan and the United States. For those five years old and older, the WHO BMI-for-age growth charts were accurate for the Brazilian and Canadian populations, while the IOTF growth charts were accurate for the European populations. Conclusions: There are difficulties in obtaining international growth charts for children from 5 years old and older that go along with a long period of growth, and which include genetic, cultural and socioeconomic differences of multiethnic populations who have already overcome the secular trend in height.

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National Growth Charts for BMI among Iranian Children and Adolescents in Comparison with the WHO and CDC Curves

Cited by 11 publications

References 15 publications

Psychiatric comorbidity of eating disorders in children between the ages of 9 and 10

Psychiatric comorbidity of eating disorders in children between the ages of 9 and 10

MULT: A new BMI reference to assess nutritional status of multi‐ethnic children and adolescents

Accuracy of international growth charts to assess nutritional status in children and adolescents: a systematic review

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