Prevalence of overweight, obesity and thinness in 9–10?year old children in Mauritius 英文参考文献.docVIP
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Prevalence of overweight, obesity and thinness in 9–10?year old children in Mauritius 英文参考文献
Caleyachettyetal.GlobalizationandHealth2012,8:28
/content/8/1/28
RESEARCH
OpenAccess
Prevalenceofoverweight,obesityandthinness
in9–10yearoldchildreninMauritius
RishiCaleyachetty1,2*,AlicjaRRudnicka3,JustinBEchouffo-Tcheugui4,KarenRSiegel4,NigelRichards5
andPeterHWhincup3
Abstract
Objective:Todocumenttheprevalenceofoverweight,obesityandthinnessin9–10yearoldchildreninMauritius.
Methods:412boysand429girlsaged9–10yearsfrom23primaryschoolswereselectedusingstratifiedcluster
randomsampling.Alldatawascross-sectionalandcollectedviaanthropometryandself-administered
questionnaire.OutcomemeasureswereBMI(kg/m2),prevalenceofoverweight,obesity(InternationalObesityTask
Forcedefinitions)andthinness(lowBMIforage).Linearandlogisticregressionanalyses,accountingforclustering
attheschoollevel,wereusedtoassessassociationsbetweengender,ethnicity,schoollocation,andschools
academicperformance(average)toeachoutcomemeasure.
Results:ThedistributionofBMIwasmarginallyskewedwithamorepronouncedpositivetailinthegirls.Median
BMIwas15.6kg/m2inboysand15.4kg/m2ingirls,respectively.Inboys,prevalenceofoverweightwas15.8%(95%
CI:12.6,19.6),prevalenceofobesity4.9%(95%CI:3.2,7.4)andprevalenceofthinness12.4%(95%CI:9.5,15.9).
Amonggirls,18.9%(95%CI:15.5,22.9)wereoverweight,5.1%(95%CI:3.4,7.7)wereobeseand13.1%(95%CI:10.2,
16.6)werethin.UrbanchildrenhadaslightlyhighermeanBMIthanruralchildren(0.5kg/m2,95%CI:0.01,1.00)
andwerenearlytwiceaslikelytobeobese(6.7%vs.4.0%;adjustedoddsratio1.6;95%CI:0.9,3.5).Creolechildren
werelesslikelytobeclassifiedasthincomparedtoIndianchildren(adjustedoddsratio0.3,95%CI:0.2,0.6).
Conclusion:Mauritiusiscurrentlyinthemidstofnutritionaltransitionwithbothahighprevalenceofoverweight
andthinnessinchildrenaged9–10years.Thecoexistenceofchildrenrepresentingoppositesidesoftheenergy
balanceequationpresentsauniquechallengeforpolicyandinterventions.Furtherexplorationisneededto
understandthespecificcausesofthedoubleburdenofmalnutritionandtomakeappropriatepolicy
recommendations.
Keywords:Bodymassi
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