Abstract

Ov/ob prevalence increased between 1999 and 2003 in German children. Since 2004, this trend has been stabilizing or turning into a downward trend. Our data confirm the global trend of stabilizing prevalence rates of childhood obesity at a high level and add important information for individual age groups. Intervention programs targeted to prevent childhood obesity may have had beneficial effects, and a new balance between factors favouring obesity and those favouring leanness may have been reached recently. Age- and gender-specific differences found in trends of ov/ob prevalence may help optimise preventive and therapeutic measures.

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MedicineObesityOverweightBody mass indexDemographyCross-sectional studyChildhood obesityPrevalencePopulationPediatricsEnvironmental healthInternal medicine

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2010
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6
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2-2
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e199-e206
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Susann Blüher, Christof Meigen, Ruth Gausche et al. (2010). Age-specific stabilization in obesity prevalence in German children: A cross-sectional study from 1999 to 2008. International Journal of Pediatric Obesity , 6 (2-2) , e199-e206. https://doi.org/10.3109/17477166.2010.526305

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