Current Weight, Height and BMI prevalences of Children and Adolescents in Yucatan-Mexico

  • Alcocer A
  • Carnero E
  • Larumbe E
  • et al.
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Introduction: Body mass index (BMI) age-based cut-offs values have been widely used to perform screening of childhood obesity. However, they must not be well fitted for all ethnics, so several prevalence data are biased. It was our aim to perform an analysis of prevalence of weight, height and BMI in a specific sample of Yucatan. Methods: Our analysis of 14,434 (7,057 girls and 7,377 boys, between 3 and 18 years) children and adolescents (4 to 15 years old) was based on the cross-sectional measurements performed on Yucantan region Mexico) during 20102011 period. Weight and height were measured using classical procedures, and BMI was calculated. This represented a 3.47% of the children population in public schools in the state of Yucatan. The LMS (lambda-mu-signma) method (Cole, 1990) was used to construct smoothed age-and gender-specific curves, using the software package LMS Chart Maker Pro, version 2.54. Results: According with WHO criteria these results were found for a) weight: 8.5%(Z-2), 18.5%(-2>Z-1), 53.2%(-1>Z1), 16.1%(1>Z2), 3.8%(Z>2); b) height: 22.1%(Z-2), 35.4%(-2>Z-1), 40.1%(-1>Z1), 1.9%(1>Z2), 0.4%(Z>2). According with IOTF criteria for BMI at 18y: 1.9%(17), 4.7%(18), 57.2%(>18.5&25), 1.9%(25>Z30), 0.4%(Z>30). Conclusion: When observing the relative importance of both body weight and height, there seems to be a very strong impact of a lower height. Determining to what extent this is caused by local particularities, social behavior, geographic or economic variables will be the scope of future research.

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Alcocer, A., Carnero, E. A., Larumbe, E., Cardona, C., & Esteve-Lanao, J. (2013). Current Weight, Height and BMI prevalences of Children and Adolescents in Yucatan-Mexico. Obesity Facts, 6(s1), 49–230. https://doi.org/10.1159/000170983

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