Monday, August 25, 2008

The Older The Fatter: Longitudinal Study About Overweight Children

“On the trail of overweight, the health scientist Prof. Dr. Günter Eissing, Technische Universitat Dortmund, carefully examined 432 Dortmund children at the age of three, in cooperation with BKK Hoesch, Public Health Authority and the city's statistical department. More precisely, he measured them. Based on height and weight, Prof. Eissing calculated the so-called Body Mass Index (BMI), compared it with birth certificate data and medical examination documents, and found out: after the first three years of their lives, 22 percent of the boys and eleven percent of the girls are overweight. The results are only the first part of a unique longitudinal study about the BMI development based on a test group of Dortmund children. After three years the test subjects will be examined again within the scope of the pre-school medical examination. So far the control of the BMI of the test subjects over a period of six years, is unique.”

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/119119.php

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