Socio-demographic disparities in distribution shifts over time in various adiposity measures among American children and adolescents: What changes in prevalence rates could not reveal

International Journal of Pediatric Obesity

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 21-35

  Beydoun, May A ^a,b   Wang, Youfa ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Adiposity; adolescent; body mass index; child; obesity; skinfold thickness; United States; waist circumference

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 78651384037     PISSN: 17477166     EISSN: 17477174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17477166.2010.488693     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Ogden CL, Carroll MD, Curtin LR et al. Prevalence of over weight and obesity in the United States, 1999-2004. JAMA. 2006;295: 1549-55.
2. World Health Organization (WHO). Obesity: preventing and managing the global epidemic. Report of a WHOConsultation Geneva; 2004.
3. US Dept. of Health and Human Services PHS. The Surgeon General's Call To Action To Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity. Rockville, MD: Office of the Surgeon General; 2001.
4. Wang Y, Beydoun MA. The obesity epidemic in the United States-gender, age, socioeconomic, racial/ethnic, and geographic characteristics: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis. Epidemiol Rev. 2007;29:6-28.
5. Bray G, Bouchard C, James WPT. Handbook of obesity: clinical applications. 2nd ed. New York: Marcel Dekker Inc; 1998.
6. Wang Y, Rimm EB, Stampfer MJ et al. Comparison of abdominal adiposity and overall obesity in predicting risk of type 2 diabetes among men. Am J Clin Nutr. 2005;81:555-63.
7. Zhu S, Heymsfield SB, Toyoshima H et al. Race-ethnicity-specific waist circumference cutoffs for identifying cardiovascular disease risk factors. Am J Clin Nutr. 2005;81: 409-15.
8. Juliusson PB, Roelants M, Eide GE et al. Overweight and obesity in Norwegian children: secular trends in weight-for-height and skinfolds. Acta Paediatr. 2007;96:1333-7.
9. Mei Z, Grummer-Strawn LM, Wang J et al. Do skinfold measurements provide additional information to body mass index in the assessment of body fatness among children and adolescents? Pediatrics. 2007;119:e1306-13.
10. Wang Y, Moreno LA, Caballero B et al. Limitations of the Current World Health Organization Growth for Children and Adolescents. Food Nutr Bull. 2006;27:s175-88.
11. WHOExpert Committee. Physical status, the use and interpretation of anthropometry. Technical Report Series 54. Geneva: WHO; 1995.
12. Beydoun MA, Wang Y. Gender-ethnic Disparity in BMI and Waist Circumference Distribution Shifts in US Adults. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2009;17:169-76.
13. Flegal KM, Troiano RP. Changes in the distribution of body mass index of adults and children in the US population. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2000;24):807-18.
14. Kromeyer-Hauschild K, Zellner K. Trends in overweight and obesity and changes in the distribution of body mass index in schoolchildren of Jena, East Germany. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2007;61:404-11.
15. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III 1988-94) Reference Manuals and Reports (CD-ROM), Bethesda, MD. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 1996.
16. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes.htm Access date: September 25th, 2006.
17. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: Anthropometric measures http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/ data/nhanes/nhanes3/cdrom/nchs/manuals/anthro.pdf Access date: September 25th, 2006.
18. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey: Anthropometric measures for 2003-04 http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhanes/nhanes-03-04/BM.pdf Access date: September 25th, 2006.
19. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). NHANES III anthro pometric procedures video: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/nhanes/avideo.htm, Acess date: September 25th, 2007; 1988-94.
20. Beydoun MA, Gary TL, Caballero BH et al. Ethnic differences in dairy and related nutrient consumption among US adults and their association with obesity, central obesity, and the metabolic syndrome. Am J Clin Nutr. 2008;87:1914-25.
21. Wang Y, Beydoun MA, Liang L et al. Will all Americans become overweight or obese? estimating the progression and cost of the US obesity epidemic. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2008;16:2323-30.
22. Kuczmarski RJ, Ogden CL, Grummer-Strawn LM et al. CDC growth charts: United States. Adv Data. 2000;314:1-27.
23. STATA. Statistics/Data Analysis: Release 9. 9.0 ed. Texas: Stata Corporation; 2005.
24. Scott DW, editor. Multivariate Density Estimation. Theory, Practice and Visualization. New York: Wiley; 1992.
25. Hara M, Saitou E, Iwata F et al. Waist-to-height ratio is the best predictor of cardiovascular disease risk factors in Japanese schoolchildren. J Atheroscler Thromb. 2002;9:127-32.
26. Kahn HS, Imperatore G, Cheng YJ. A population-based comparison of BMI percentiles and waist-to-height ratio for identifying cardiovascular risk in youth. J Pediatr. 2005;146: 482-8.
27. Li C, Ford ES, Mokdad AH et al. Recent trends in waist circumference and waist-height ratio among US children and adolescents. Pediatrics. 2006;118:e1390-8.
28. Wardle J, Boniface D. Changes in the distributions of body mass index and waist circumference in English adults, 1993/ 1994 to 2002/2003. Int J Obes (Lond). 2008;32:527-32.
29. Brown JE, Krinke B, Murtaugh M et al. Nutrition Through the Life Cycle. Belmont, CA: Thomson Higher Education; 2007.
30. Schreiber GB, Robins M, Striegel-Moore R et al. Weight modification efforts reported by black and white preadolescent girls: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Growth and Health Study. Pediatrics. 1996;98(1):63-70.
31. Wang Y. Epidemiology of childhood obesity-methodological aspects and guidelines: what is new? Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2004;28:S21-8.
32. The North American Association for the Study of Obesity (NAASO) and the National Heart L, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). The Practical Guide: Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/obesity/practgde.htm Accessed: Feb 5th, 2010
33. Wadden TA, Stunkard AJ. Handbook of obesity treatment. New York: The Guildford Press; 2002.
34. Wang Y, Mi J, Shan XY et al. Is China facing an obesity epidemic and the consequences? The trends in obesity and chronic disease in China. Int J Obes (Lond). 2007;31:177-88.
35. Rose G, Day S. The population mean predicts the number of deviant individuals. BMJ. 1990;301:1031-4.
36. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS). Healthy People 2010, http://www.healthypeople.gov/. 2006.
37. Hill JO. Genetic and environmental contributions to obesity.Am J Clin Nutr. 1998;68:991-2.
38. Hill JO, Wyatt HR, Melanson EL. Genetic and environmental contributions to obesity. Med Clin North Am. 2000;84: 333-46.
39. Butte NF, Cai G, Cole SA et al. Viva la Familia Study: genetic and environmental contributions to childhood obesity and its comorbidities in the Hispanic population. Am J Clin Nutr. 2006;84:646-54; quiz 73-4.
40. Cohen DA. Obesity and the built environment: changes inenvironmental cues cause energy imbalances. Int J Obes (Lond). 2008;32:S137-42.
41. Holsten JE. Obesity and the community food environment: a systematic review. Public Health Nutr. 2008;14:1-9.
42. Morland KB, Evenson KR. Obesity prevalence and the local food environment. Health Place. 2009;15:491-5.
43. Popkin BM, Duffey K, Gordon-Larsen P. Environmental influences on food choice, physical activity and energy balance. Physiol Behav. 2005;86:603-13.
44. Powell LM, Auld MC, Chaloupka FJ et al. Associations between access to food stores and adolescent body mass index. Am J Prev Med. 2007;33:S301-7.
45. Nelson MC, Gordon-Larsen P, Song Y et al. Built and social environments associations with adolescent overweight and activity. Am J Prev Med. 2006;31:109-17.
46. Chaloupka FJ, Powell LM. Price, availability, and youth obesity: evidence from Bridging the Gap. Prev Chronic Dis. 2009;6:A92.
47. Powell LM, Bao Y. Food prices, access to food outlets and child weight. Econ Hum Biol. 2009;7:64-72.
48. Powell LM, Zhao Z, Wang Y. Food prices and fruit and vegetable consumption among young American adults. Health Place. 2009;15:1064-70.
49. Powell LM, Chaloupka FJ, Bao Y. The availability of fast-food and full-service restaurants in the United States: associations with neighborhood characteristics. Am J Prev Med. 2007; 33:S240-5.
50. Powell LM, Slater S, Mirtcheva D et al. Food store availability and neighborhood characteristics in the United States. Prev Med. 2007;44:189-95.
51. Powell LM, Chaloupka FJ, Slater SJ et al. The availability of local-area commercial physical activity-related facilities and physical activity among adolescents. Am J Prev Med. 2007; 33:S292-300.