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Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity, and Thinness in Cameroon Urban Children and Adolescents
المؤلفون المشاركون
Enyong Oben, Julius
Cianflone, Katherine
Wamba, Ponce Cedric Fouejeu
المصدر
العدد
المجلد 2013، العدد 2013 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2013)، ص ص. 1-9، 9ص.
الناشر
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
تاريخ النشر
2013-06-19
دولة النشر
مصر
عدد الصفحات
9
التخصصات الرئيسية
الملخص EN
Objective.
This study examined the prevalence of thinness, overweight, and obesity in Cameroon children ranging from 8 to 15 years old using several published references as evaluation tools.
Methods.
A stratified sample was used with eleven schools randomly selected, and data from 2689 children (52.2% girls) ranging from 8 to 15 years were analyzed.
Weight and height were recorded and BMI was calculated.
BMI cutoffs used to define nutritional status grades included two international and three national published indices which were compared to our database-derived cutoffs.
Results.
A prevalence of 9.5% thinness and 12.4% overweight including 1.9% obesity according to international references was detected.
A 2.2% low-weight-for-age, 5.7% low-height-for-age, and 5.2% low-weight-for-height were identified.
Overall, there were significant differences using calculations based on our database versus published reference values and between boys versus girls.
Conclusions.
This study demonstrates that prevalence of thinness, overweight, and obesity is similar to that of other leading-emerging countries reported within the last decade, yet it is still lower than prevalence in developed countries.
Ethnic background and social environment have impact on prevalences, highlighting the importance of evaluating the Cameroon population based on locally derived database.
نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)
Wamba, Ponce Cedric Fouejeu& Enyong Oben, Julius& Cianflone, Katherine. 2013. Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity, and Thinness in Cameroon Urban Children and Adolescents. Journal of Obesity،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-494701
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)
Wamba, Ponce Cedric Fouejeu…[et al.]. Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity, and Thinness in Cameroon Urban Children and Adolescents. Journal of Obesity No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-494701
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)
Wamba, Ponce Cedric Fouejeu& Enyong Oben, Julius& Cianflone, Katherine. Prevalence of Overweight, Obesity, and Thinness in Cameroon Urban Children and Adolescents. Journal of Obesity. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-494701
نوع البيانات
مقالات
لغة النص
الإنجليزية
الملاحظات
Includes bibliographical references
رقم السجل
BIM-494701
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