IOTF Obesity in Europe Childhood section -

Appendix 1

 

IOTF collated data for children aged around 10 years

 

 

% overweight + obese

date of survey

age / no. of children

Source

Belgium

18%*

1992

8-10 / 348

M Guillaume et al, IJO, 19, S5-S9, 1995

Bulgaria

20%

19982000

10 / 618

S Petrova et al, Hygiene and Public H, XIV, 2001

Croatia

27%*

?1998

10 / 581

Antoinette Kaic-Rak to IOTF/GBD

Czech Rep

16%

2000

7-11 / 3345

Jana Vignerova, NIPH Prague

Denmark

18%

?1998

10 / 319

Anne Nielsen to IOTF/GBD

Finland

13%*

1999

7-12 / 33000

M Fogelholm, IJOb, 23, 1262-1268 (1999)

France

18%

2000

7-9.9 / 1582

M-F R-Cachera,et al, (IJO in press)

Germany

15%

1995

10 / 2960

(?Kromeyer-Hauschild) to IOTF/GBD

Greece

31%

2000

6-10 / 1226

GE Krassas et al, JPedEndMet 14, S1319-S1326 (2001)

Hungary

18%

1993-4

10 / 232

Bellizi (ref 17)

Italy

36%

2001

9 / 41149

M Caroli et al to IOTF unpub

Malta

35%

1992

10 / 519

Bellizi (ref 23)

Netherlands

14%*

1997

10 / ~700

AM Frederiks et al, ArchDisCh, 82, 107-112 (2000)

Norway

21%

1996

10 / 174

S Tonstad, M Sivertsen ArchDisCh 76, 416-420 (1997)

Poland

19%

1996-99

10 / 250

I Palczewska to IOTF/GBD

Slovakia

10%

1995-99

11 / 635

K Babinska, A Bederova to IOTF/GBD

Spain

30%

1998-2000

6-13 / 970

LS Majem et al Factors in Childhood Obesity (book) Barcelona, 2001.

Sweden

18%

2000-01

10 / 6700

Staffan Marild to IOTF unpub

Switzerland

16%

1999

9-10 / ~90

M Zimmerman et al, EuJClinNut, 54, 568-572 (2000)

UK

22%*

1998

10 / 257

Health Survey for England 1999

Yugoslavia

16%

1998

9-10 / 6288

M Pavlovic et al, PHInst to IOTF

 

* Estimate based on mean and sd of BMI

 

 

 


Appendix 2

Appendix 2

IOTF collated data for trends in childhood overweight

 

 

date of survey

% overweight + obese

Source

Czech Rep

1991

2000

10%

13%

Jana Vignerova, NIPH Prague

France

1963

1977

1990

1995

2000

3%

6%

10%

13%

16%

M-F R-Cachera,et al 2001

Germany

1975

1985

1995

11%

12%

18%

Kromeyer-Hauschild IJO, 23, 1143-1150 (1999)

Netherlands

1980

1997

10%

18%

AM Frederiks et al, ArchDisCh, 82, 107-112 (2000)

Poland

1994

2000

8%

18%

A Obalcinska, Paediatria Polska 1997, I Palczewska to IOTF/GBD

Spain

1980

1995

12%

19%

Moreno et al, BMJ, 2001

Switzerland

1965

1975

4%

8%

Woringer & Schutz, Lausanne, Poster 425, S209,

UK

1974

1884

1994

8%

8%

17%

Health Survey for EnglandChinn and Rona, BMJ, 2001 (check)

Yugoslavia

1989

1998

12%

16%

M Pavlovic et al, P H Inst Subotica, to IOTF

 

 

IOTF – International Obesity TaskForce

Childhood Obesity Project

Dr Tim Lobstein, 231 North Gower Street, London NW1, UK

tel + 44 20 7691 1911

email:  childhood@iotf.org

ECOG – European Childhood Obesity Group

Dr Marie-Laure Frelut, Centre Therapeutique Pediatrique de Margency,

Rue Salengro 18, P O Box 6, 95580 Margency, France

tel + 33 1 34 27 42 00

email:  frelut@club-internet.fr