| Baseline measures for a school-based obesity control programme: Project Energize: Differences by ethnicity, rurality, age and school socio-economic status. | |
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PMID: 23199372 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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AIM: School-based interventions to tackle the rise in childhood overweight and obesity remain inconclusive and are often limited in their application to diverse populations. To inform and measure the effect of the implementation of a primary school-based longitudinal randomised controlled nutrition and activity intervention, Project Energize, baseline measures of body size and blood pressure were required. METHODS: This cross-sectional study stratified by age, sex, ethnicity, rurality and school socio-economic-status (school-SES) measured body mass index (BMI), percentage body fat (%BF), waist and resting blood pressure from 2752 5- and 10-year-old children (62% European, 31% Māori) representative of the Waikato region of New Zealand. RESULT: Waikato children have a high prevalence of overweight and obesity that is linked with hypertension. Cardiovascular risk factors including raised blood pressure and hypertension, waist and arm circumference and percentage body fat (%BF) were more prevalent in 10-year-olds, lower school-SES and to some extent, urban living. In European children, BMI and waist circumference were similarly predictive of %BF, but for Māori children, waist circumference predicted %BF better than BMI. CONCLUSIONS: A variety of stratified, baseline measurements is important when designing school-based interventions. In particular, waist circumference measures may be a more accurate predictor of %BF than BMI when determining measurement protocols that consider different ethnic groups and environments among children. The effect of targeted improvements of the school physical activity and nutrition environment on the rate of increase of weight, fatness and blood pressure in children should be examined. |
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Elaine Rush; Peter W Reed; David Simmons; Tara Coppinger; Stephanie McLennan; David Graham |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-12-2 |
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Title: Journal of paediatrics and child health Volume: - ISSN: 1440-1754 ISO Abbreviation: J Paediatr Child Health Publication Date: 2012 Dec |
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Created Date: 2012-12-3 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 9005421 Medline TA: J Paediatr Child Health Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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© 2012 The Authors. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health © 2012 Paediatrics and Child Health Division (Royal Australasian College of Physicians). |
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Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand. |
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