WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative: body mass index and level of overweight among 6–9-year-old children from school year 2007/2008 to school year 2009/2010

Wijnhoven, Trudy; MA van Raaij, Joop; Spinelli, Angela; Starc, Gregor; Hassapidou, Maria; Spiroski, Igor; Rutter, Harry; Martos, Éva; Isabel Rito, Ana; Hovengen, Ragnhild; Pérez‐Farinós, Napoleón; Petrauskienė, Aušra; Eldin, Nazih; Braeckevelt, Lien; Pudule, Iveta; Kunešová, Marie; Breda, João

doi:10.1186/1471-2458-14-806

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WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative: body mass index and level of overweight among 6–9-year-old children from school year 2007/2008 to school year 2009/2010

Published in BMC Public Health • Aug 6, 2014

Authors:

Trudy Wijnhoven

Joop MA van Raaij

Angela Spinelli

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe has established the Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) to monitor changes in overweight in primary-school children. The aims of this paper are to present the anthropometric results of COSI Round 2 (2009/2010) an...

Subject

Overweight

Medicine

Body mass index

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