Nutritional status of urban schoolchildren of high and low socioeconomic status in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala

Revista Panamericana de Salud Publica/Pan American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 169-177

  Groeneveld, Iris F ^a,b   Solomons, Noel W ^c   Doak, Colleen M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Center for Studies of Sensory Impairment Aging and Metabolism Guatemala   (Guatemala)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Body mass index; Child; Child nutrition disorders; Guatemala; Overweight; Social class

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; CHILD HEALTH; DEVELOPING WORLD; HEALTH RISK; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; STUDENT; URBAN POPULATION;

CENTRAL AMERICA; GUATEMALA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; QUEZALTENANGO;

EID: 36949018713     PISSN: 10204989     EISSN: 16805348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1020-49892007000800003     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Popkin BM. The nutrition transition and its health implications in lower income countries. Public Health Nutr. 1998;1:5-21.
2. Gracey M. Child health implications of world-wide urbanization. Environ Health. 2003; 18(1):15-63.
3. Uauy R, Monteiro CA. The challenge of improving food and nutrition in Latin America. Food Nutr Bull. 2004;25(2):175-82.
4. Caballero B. Symposium: obesity in developing countries: biological and ecological factors. J Nutr. 2001;131(3):866S-70S.
5. Popkin BM. Understanding the nutrition transition. Urban Health Newsl. 1996;30:3-19.
6. World Health Organization. Obesity: preventing and managing the global epidemic. Report of a WHO consultation. Geneva: WHO; 2000. (Technical report series 894).
7. Uauy R, Albala C, Kain J. Obesity trends in Latin America: transiting from under- to overweight. J Nutr. 2001;131(3):893S-899S.
8. Troiano RP, Hegal KM. Overweight children and adolescents: description, epidemiology and demographics. Pediatrics. 1998;101(3):497-504.
9. Post CL, Victora CG, Barros FC, Horta BL, Guimaraes PR. Desnutrição e obesidade infantis em duas coortes de base populacional no Sul do Brasil: tendêndas e diferendais. Cad Saude Publica. 1996;12;49S-57S.
10. Post CL, Victora CG. The low prevalence of weight-for-height deficits in Brazilian children is related to body proportions. J Nutr. 2001;131(4):1290-6.
11. Monteiro CA, Mondini L, de Souza AL, Popkin BM. The nutrition transition in Brazil. Eur J Clin Nutr.l995;49(2):105-13.
12. Kain J, Uauy R, Vio F, Albala C. Trends in overweight and obesity prevalence in Chilean children: comparison of three definitions. Eur J CUn Nutr. 2002;56(3):200-4.
13. De Onis M, Blössner M. Prevalence and trends of overweight and obesity among preschool children in developing countries. Am J Clin Nutr. 2000;72(4):1032-9.
14. Martorell R, Kettel Khan L, Hughes ML, Grummer-Strawn LM. Obesity in Latin American women and children. J Nutr. 1998;128(9): 1464-73.
15. Wang, Y, Monteiro C, Popkin B. Trends in obesity and underweight in older children and adolescents in the USA, Brazil, China and Russia. Original research communication. Am J Clin Nutr. 2002;75(6):971-7.
16. Da Silva GAP, Balaban G, Motta MEF. Prevalênria de sobrepeso e obesidade em crianças e adolescentes de diferentes condiçoes socioeconômicas. Rev Bras Saude Matem Infant. 2005;5(1):53-9.
17. Kain J, Vio F, Albala C. Obesity trends and determinant factors in Latin America. Cad Saúde Pública 2003;19(Suppl 1):77-86.
18. Heaton TB, Forste R, Hoffmann JP, Flake D. Cross-national variation in family influences on child health. Soc Sci Med. 2005;60(1): 97-108.
19. Ruel MT, Menon P. Child feeding practices are associated with child nutritional status in Latin America: innovative uses of the Demographic and Health Surveys. J. Nutr. 2002; 132:1180-7.
20. González-Cossío T, Habicht JP, Rasussen K, Delgado HL. Impact of food supplementation during lactation on infant breast milk intake and on the proportion of infants exclusively breast-fed. J Nutr. 1998;128(10):1692-702.
21. Bellizzi MC, Dietz WH. Workshop on child obesity: summary of the discussion. Am J Clin Nutr. 1999;70(1):173S-175S.
22. Sawaya AL, Martins PA, Grillo LP, Florêncio TT. Long-term effects of early malnutrition on body weight regulation. Nutr Rev. 2004;62(7 Pt.2):127S-133S.
23. Doak CM, Adair LS, Bentley M, Monteiro CA, Popkin BM. The dual burden household and the nutrition transition paradox. Int J Obes. 2005;29(1):129-36.
24. Schroeder DG, Martorell R. Infant and child growth and fatness and fat distribution in Guatemalan adults. Am J Epidemiol. 1999; 149(2):177-85.
25. Bogin B, Smith P, Orden AB, Varela Silva MI, Loucky J. Rapid change in height and body proportions of Maya American children. Am J Hum Biol. 2002;14(6):753-61.
26. Landaeta-Jiménez M, Pérez BM, Escalante Y. Adiposidad y patrón de grasa en jóvenes venezolanos por estrato social. Arch Latinoam Nutr. 2002;52(2):128-36.
27. Falkner F, Tanner JM. Human growth. New York: Plenum Publishing; 1979.
28. Dietz WH, Bellizi MC. Introduction: the use of body mass index to assess obesity in children. Am J Clin Nutr. 1999;70(1):123S-125S.
29. Ming Moy F, Ying Gan C, Kassim Siti Zaleha M. Body mass status of school children and adolescents in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2004;13(4):324-9.
30. Cole TJ, Bellizi MC, Flegal KM, Dietz WH. Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity worldwide: international survey. BMJ. 2000;320(7244):1240-3.
31. Wang Y, Ge K, Popkin BM. Why do some overweight children remain overweight whereas others do not? Public Health Nutr. 2003;6(6):549-58.
32. Wang Y. Epidemiology of childhood obesity-methodological aspects and guidelines: what is new? Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2004-8 Suppl 3:S21-S22.
33. de Onis M, Dasgupta P, Saha S, Sengupta D, Blössner M. The National Center for Health Statistics reference and the growth of Indian adolescent boys. Am J Clin Nutr. 2001,74(2): 248-53.
34. Monárrez-Espino J, Martínez H, Martínez V, Greiner T. Nutritional status of indigenous children at boarding schools in Northern Mexico. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2004;58(3):532-40.
35. World Health Organization. Physical status: the use and interpretation of anthropometry. Report of a WHO expert committee. Geneva: WHO; 1995. (Technical Report Series 854).
36. National Center for Health Statistics. 2 to 20 years: Boys. Body mass index-for-age percentiles. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhanes/ growthcharts/set1clinical/cj411023.pdf. Accessed on 30 April 2005.
37. National Center for Health Statistics. 2 to 20 years: Girls. Body mass index-for-age percentiles. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhanes/ growthcharts/set1clinical/cj411024.pdf. Accessed 30 April 2005.
38. Martorell R, Khan LK, Schroeder DG. Reversibility of stunting: epidemiological findings in children from developing countries. Eur J Clin Nutr. 1994;48(Suppl 1):S45-S57.
39. Golden MH. Is complete catch-up possible for stunted malnourished children? Eur J Clin Nutr. 1994;48(Suppl 1):S58-S70.
40. Smith K, Bogin B, Varela-Silva MI, Loucky J. Economic and anthropological assessments of the health of children of Mayan immigrant families in the US. Econ Hum Biol. 2003;1: 145-60.
41. Jolliffe D. Extend of overweight among US children and adolescents from 1971 to 2000. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2004;28(1):4-9.
42. Kuczmarski RJ, Ogden CL, Guo SS, Grummer-Strawn LM, Flegal KM, Mei Z, Wei R, et al. 2000 CDC growth charts for the United States: methods and development. Vital Health Stat. 2002;11(246):1-190.
43. Augustine LF, Poojara RH. Prevalence of obesity, weight perceptions and weight control practices among urban college going girls. Ind J Com Med. 2003;28(4):187-90.
44. Yanovski JA, Yanovski SZ, Filmer KM, Hubbard VS, Avila N, Lewis B et al. Differences in body composition in black and white girls. Am J Clin Nutr. 1996;64(6):833-9.
45. Schroeder DG, Martorell R. Fatness and body mass index from birth to young adulthood in a rural Guatemalan population. Am J Clin Nutr. 1999;70(1):137S-144S.
46. Pebley AR, Goldman N. Social inequality and children's growth in Guatemala. Health Transit Rev. 1995;5(1):1-20.
47. Smith LC, Ruel M, Ndiaye A. Why is child malnutrition lower in urban than in rural areas? Evidence from 36 developing countries. Washington DC: International Food Policy Research Institute; 2004. (FCND discussion paper 176).