Author: Iulia Armean Coordinators: Conf. Dr. Pascanu Ionela, Dr. Pop Raluca Coauthors: Tanase Elena, Andrei Ioana, Frandes Vlad

excesive body fat serious health complications 2 android or ginoid OBESITY Increased prevalence in children 2 Excesive food energy intake OBESITY B ACKROUND : Lack of physical activity Genetic susceptibility 2

Our purpose was to estimate the incidence of overweight in school-aged children using different growth standards. P URPOSE 3

M ATERIALS AND METHODS 1 Type of study : cross-sectional Target population : school- aged children 6-14 years of age Sample: 1168 children from 8 rural and urban school institutions from Tg. Mures County 4

M ATERIALS AND METHODS 2  Variables:  age  gender  environment  standard deviations for weight, BMI and waist using WHO and Swiss standards  Method: anthropometric measurements  height- stadiometer  weight- electronic scale  waist- taliometer  Software for SD calculus:  GrowthAnalyzer  Anthroplus software  Statistical analysis:  M.O. Excel  GraphPadInStat v

R ESULTS 1 : Fig. 1 Sex and environment distribution 46.43% 6

R ESULTS 2 :  Overweight in girls based on BMI 7

R ESULTS 3 :  Overweight in boys depending on BMI 8

R ESULTS 4 :  Low weight in girls depending on BMI 9

R ESULTS 5 :  Low weight in boys depending on BMI 10

The worldwide prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity increased from 4.2% in 1990 to 6.7% in This trend is expected to reach 9.1% or ’60 million, in trend In 2010, 43 million children (35 million in developing countries) were estimated to be overweight and obese; 92 million were at risk of overweight 2 Countries with the highest prevalences of overweight are located mainly in the Middle East, North Africa, and Latin America 1 In terms of prevalence of overweight and obesity in adolescents, up to 33% of boys and 19% of girls among 11-year-olds were overweight 3 11 D ISCUSIONS :

Obesity is a serious public heath problem whose prevalence has increased nowadays. There is a real difference between various anthropometric standards used for weight evaluation In order to obtain accurate data for our population we need to develop and implement our own standards. C ONCLUSIONS : 12

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