Background Obesity among children and adolescents is a growing public health problem.
The aim of the present paper is to identify potential determinants of obesity and risk groups …

Background Childhood obesity is a serious public health problem and epidemiological
studies are important to identify predictive factors. It is the aim of this study to analyse factors …

For some time, there have been indications that the prevalence of overweight and obesity
among children and adolescents in Germany has stabilised at a high level. The second …

The prevalence and incidence of overweight or even obese children and adolescents is
significantly on the increase worldwide. According to the German Children and Adolescent …

Aims: Prevention of obesity is a public health agenda. There are only few longitudinal
studies on prevention of overweight in children. The Kiel Obesity Prevention Study (KOPS) …

Background: There is a lack of common surveillance systems providing comparable figures
and temporal trends of the prevalence of overweight (OW), obesity and related risk factors …

Background The present study aims to estimate childhood overweight and obesity
prevalence and their association with individual and population-level correlates in Eastern …

Overweight and obesity are an increasing problem: worldwide, for Germany and for children
and adolescents. Until now there have been no representative and age-specific …

Objectives: The prevalence of overweight and obesity has dramatically increased in western
societies. This paper examines behavioural, psychosocial and socioeconomic factors …

Objective: To pool and analyse, according to standardized criteria and using harmonized
variables, the existing databases of surveys on childhood overweight and obesity carried out …