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Overweight and Obesity in Children during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Infectious Diseases, Chronic Diseases, and Disease Prevention".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 2161

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Department of Paediatrics, Endocrinology, Diabetology, Metabolic Disorders and Cardiology of Developmental Age, Pomeranian Medical University, 71-242 Szczecin, Poland
Interests: pediatric clinical endocrinology; adolescent obesity; type 1 diabetes; pubertal and growth disorders in children

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Obesity, said to be the pandemic of the XXI century, poses one of the greatest fundamental public health problems and is projected to escalate over time. The most concerning and urgent aspect of obesity is its prevalence in children. Obesity is diagnosed when the calculated BMI value (Body Mass Index) is above the 97th percentile for age and gender. According to the WHO, 38 million children under the age of five were classed as overweight or obese in 2019. As stated by the latest published research in our place of investigation, the city of Szczecin, this problem concerns 8.6% of children aged 8–10 years. Excessive body weight increases the risk of numerous clinical consequences: diabetes mellitus type 2, hypertension, heart attack, stroke, kidney disorders, some cancers, emotional problems and many others. In this issue of the journal you will find reports on the potential causative factors, complications and ways to prevent obesity in children.

Dr. Elżbieta Petriczko
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • childhood obesity
  • obesity prevention
  • metabolic complications of obesity

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Changes in the Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity among Peruvian Children under Five Years before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from a Nationwide Population-Based Study
by Akram Hernández-Vásquez and Rodrigo Vargas-Fernández
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(19), 12390; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912390 - 29 Sep 2022
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This study aimed to identify changes in the prevalence of childhood (children under five years of age) overweight and obesity in Peru as a whole and at the departmental level, before and during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. We performed a secondary data [...] Read more.
This study aimed to identify changes in the prevalence of childhood (children under five years of age) overweight and obesity in Peru as a whole and at the departmental level, before and during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. We performed a secondary data analysis of two Demographic and Family Health Surveys (2019 and 2021) in Peru. The outcome was childhood overweight and obesity, defined as a weight-for-height score greater than 2 standard deviations. Poisson log generalized linear regression models adjusted for sex and/or age in months of the child were fitted to obtain the prevalence ratios of the changes in childhood overweight and obesity from 2019 to 2021. The analysis included 41,533 (2019: 20,414; 2021: 21,119) participants. The prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity was 6.4% in 2019 and 7.8% in 2021. Female children, aged 2, 3 and 4 years, and mothers who self-identified as non-native, had secondary and higher education, belonged to the middle and richer wealth quintile and resided in an urban area, in a village, in a small city and in the coastal region showed the largest increases in the prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity in 2021 compared to 2019. The departments of Pasco, Apurímac, Junín, Cusco, Lambayeque and La Libertad presented the largest increases in the prevalence of these nutritional disorders. During the pandemic, an increase in the prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity was observed, with demographic and socioeconomic factors accounting for the largest increases in the prevalence rates. A restructuring of overweight and obesity control strategies is required to curb this steady increase. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Overweight and Obesity in Children during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic)
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