Body mass index has risen more steeply in tall than in short 3-year olds: serial cross-sectional surveys 1988-2003

Objective: To monitor the changing relationship between body mass index (BMI) and height in young children. Design: Annual cross-sectional surveys using health-visitor-collected routine data 1988-2003. Setting: Wirral, England. Participants: Fifty thousand four hundred and fifty-five children (49% f...

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Published in:International Journal of Obesity 2007-01, Vol.31 (1), p.23-29
Main Authors: Buchan, I.E, Bundred, P.E, Kitchiner, D.J, Cole, T.J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age
appetite
Biological and medical sciences
Birth weight
Birth Weight - physiology
Body Height - physiology
Body Mass Index
body weight
Body Weight - physiology
boys
Child Development - physiology
child growth
Child, Preschool
Children & youth
Childrens health
Confidence intervals
Cross-Sectional Studies
England - epidemiology
Epidemiology
Feeding. Feeding behavior
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
gender differences
girls
Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Height
Humans
Hypotheses
Internal Medicine
longitudinal studies
Male
Medical sciences
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Metabolic Diseases
Obesity
Obesity - epidemiology
Overweight
pediatric-highlight
Population Surveillance - methods
Preschool children
Prevalence
Puberty
Public Health
Regression analysis
Seasonal variations
Sex Distribution
Standard deviation
temporal variation
Vertebrates: anatomy and physiology, studies on body, several organs or systems
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Summary:Objective: To monitor the changing relationship between body mass index (BMI) and height in young children. Design: Annual cross-sectional surveys using health-visitor-collected routine data 1988-2003. Setting: Wirral, England. Participants: Fifty thousand four hundred and fifty-five children (49% female) each measured once at the age of 3 years. Main outcome measures: Weight, height and derived BMI (weight/height2) adjusted for age and sex (British 1990 revised reference) using standard deviation scores. Results: From 1988 to 2003, mean BMI increased by 0.7 kg/m2, whereas mean height fell by 0.5 cm. Over the same period, the weight-height correlation rose from 0.59 to 0.71 (P
ISSN:0307-0565
1476-5497
DOI:10.1038/sj.ijo.0803435