Childhood obesity and excess weight: Good news or is the worst still to come?

JJ Puder

doi:10.4414/smw.2010.13114

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Vol. 140 No. 4546 (2010)

Childhood obesity and excess weight: Good news or is the worst still to come?

JJ Puder

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2010.13114
Cite this as:: Swiss Med Wkly. 2010;140:w13114
Published: 08.11.2010

References

Aeberli I, et al. Stabilization of the prevalence of childhood obesity in Switzerland. Swiss Med Wkly. 140: p. w13046.
Ogden CL, et al. Prevalence of high body mass index in US children and adolescents, 2007–2008. JAMA. 303(3):242–9.
Aeberli I, et al. Decrease in the prevalence of paediatric adiposity in Switzerland from 2002 to 2007. Public Health Nutr. 13(6):806–11.
Jeannot E, Mahler P, Duperrex O, chastong P. Evolution of excess weight and obesity among 5–6-year-old schoolchildren in Geneva. Swiss Med Wkly. 2010;140:w13040.
Stamm HWD, Lamprecht M. Monitoring des données concernant le poids des enfants et des adolescents. http://www.gesundheitsfoerderung.ch/pdf_doc_xls/f/Gesundes_Koerpergewicht/Grundlagen_Wissen/Monitoring/Rapport-Monitorage-IMC-08-09-Villes-et-cantons-aot-2010.pdf, 2010.
Faeh D, Bopp M. Excess weight in the canton of Zurich, 1992–2009: harbinger of a trend reversal in Switzerland? Swiss Med Wkly. 140: p. w13090.
Faeh D, Bopp M. Increase in the prevalence of obesity in Switzerland 1982-2007: birth cohort analysis puts recent slowdown into perspective. Obesity. (Silver Spring). 18(3):644–6.
Marques-Vidal P, et al. Prevalence of obesity and abdominal obesity in the Lausanne population. BMC Public Health. 2008;8:330.
Stamatakis E, Wardle J, Cole TJ. Childhood obesity and overweight prevalence trends in England: evidence for growing socioeconomic disparities. Int J Obes. (Lond). 34(1):41–7.
Atkinson RL. Viruses as an etiology of obesity. Mayo Clin Proc. 2007;82(10):1192–8.
Tomkinson GR, et al. Secular trends in the performance of children and adolescents (1980-2000): an analysis of 55 studies of the 20m shuttle run test in 11 countries. Sports Med. 2003;33(4):285–300.

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Puder J. Childhood obesity and excess weight: Good news or is the worst still to come?. Swiss Med Wkly [Internet]. 2010 Nov. 8 [cited 2024 Nov. 26];140(4546):w13114. Available from: https://smw.ch/index.php/smw/article/view/1212

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[1] Aeberli I, et al. Stabilization of the prevalence of childhood obesity in Switzerland. Swiss Med Wkly. 140: p. w13046.

[2] Ogden CL, et al. Prevalence of high body mass index in US children and adolescents, 2007–2008. JAMA. 303(3):242–9.

[3] Aeberli I, et al. Decrease in the prevalence of paediatric adiposity in Switzerland from 2002 to 2007. Public Health Nutr. 13(6):806–11.

[4] Jeannot E, Mahler P, Duperrex O, chastong P. Evolution of excess weight and obesity among 5–6-year-old schoolchildren in Geneva. Swiss Med Wkly. 2010;140:w13040.

[5] Stamm HWD, Lamprecht M. Monitoring des données concernant le poids des enfants et des adolescents. http://www.gesundheitsfoerderung.ch/pdf_doc_xls/f/Gesundes_Koerpergewicht/Grundlagen_Wissen/Monitoring/Rapport-Monitorage-IMC-08-09-Villes-et-cantons-aot-2010.pdf, 2010.

[6] Faeh D, Bopp M. Excess weight in the canton of Zurich, 1992–2009: harbinger of a trend reversal in Switzerland? Swiss Med Wkly. 140: p. w13090.

[7] Faeh D, Bopp M. Increase in the prevalence of obesity in Switzerland 1982-2007: birth cohort analysis puts recent slowdown into perspective. Obesity. (Silver Spring). 18(3):644–6.

[8] Marques-Vidal P, et al. Prevalence of obesity and abdominal obesity in the Lausanne population. BMC Public Health. 2008;8:330.

[9] Stamatakis E, Wardle J, Cole TJ. Childhood obesity and overweight prevalence trends in England: evidence for growing socioeconomic disparities. Int J Obes. (Lond). 34(1):41–7.

[10] Atkinson RL. Viruses as an etiology of obesity. Mayo Clin Proc. 2007;82(10):1192–8.

[11] Tomkinson GR, et al. Secular trends in the performance of children and adolescents (1980-2000): an analysis of 55 studies of the 20m shuttle run test in 11 countries. Sports Med. 2003;33(4):285–300.