Objective: To estimate the burden of excess weight in Brazilian adolescents. Design:
Systematic review with meta-analysis. Setting: We searched the literature in four databases …

The purpose of the study was to investigate the prevalence of overweight and obesity
among young Brazilian aged 5 to 19 years through systematic review and meta-analysis of …

Objective To report the prevalence and trends of the BMI of Portuguese adolescents in 2002,
2006 and 2010. Methods 4138 boys and 4472 girls self-reported weight, height, physical …

In this chapter we describe the prevalence, distribution, and changing trends of overweight
and obesity among Brazilian adolescents across the last three decades, including the most …

OBJECTIVE: to describe the secular trends in overweight among preschool children in the
years 1989, 1996, and 2006, and to identify risk factors associated with this condition in …

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to describe the prevalence of overweight and obesity (OW+
O) among Brazilian adolescents and to identify risks for subpopulations defined according to …

Aim: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 1,477 middle school students enrolled in
the public school network in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil to assess the prevalence of overweight …

Purpose. The aim of this research was to report the prevalence of overweight and obesity in
a representative sample of Portuguese youth. Methods. This was a school-based study …

Background: Obesity in children/adolescents is a major public health problem worldwide. In
Brazil there is great variability in published data on the prevalence of obesity among …

The aims were to examine changes in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among
students from 2001 to 2011, and to verify if these changes differ according to age group …