作者
Aisling O’Donnell, Maria Buffini, Laura Kehoe, Anne Nugent, John Kearney, Janette Walton, Albert Flynn, Breige McNulty
发表日期
2020/10
期刊
Public Health Nutrition
卷号
23
期号
14
页码范围
2512-2520
出版商
Cambridge University Press
简介
Objective
The present study aimed to examine the temporal prevalence of overweight and obesity in Irish children through different methodologies and evaluate the change in rates between 1990 and 2019.
Design
Anthropometric data from three Irish national food consumption surveys were used to examine the change in the prevalence of BMI and waist circumference-derived overweight and obesity levels.
Setting
Three cross-sectional food consumption surveys from the Republic of Ireland: the Irish National Nutrition Survey (1990), the National Children’s Food Survey (2005) and The Second National Children’s Food Survey (2019).
Participants
A demographically representative sample of Irish children aged 5–12 years: 1990 (n 148), 2005 (n 594) and 2019 (n 596).
Results
Twelve percentage of children had overweight/obesity in 1990, which was significantly higher in 2005 at 25 % and significantly lower in 2019 at …
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