Cole T J, Roede M J
MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge, UK.
Ann Hum Biol. 1999 Jul-Aug;26(4):303-8.
To document the distribution of body mass index (BMI) in Holland in 1980 when obesity was uncommon.
Nationally representative growth survey.
Forty-one-thousand boys and girls age 0-20 years.
BMI centiles based on the original height and weight data were derived using the LMS method.
Median BMI showed the familiar pattern of a rise in the first year, followed by a fall, then a second rise after 6 years. The level of overweight was less than for children from the USA, France and Norway measured at the same time or earlier.
Dutch children in 1980 were relatively free of obesity, so the BMI centiles are a suitable baseline to monitor international trends in obesity since then.
记录1980年荷兰肥胖现象尚不常见时的体重指数（BMI）分布情况。
具有全国代表性的生长发育调查。
4.1万名0至20岁的男孩和女孩。
采用LMS法根据原始身高和体重数据得出BMI百分位数。
BMI中位数呈现出常见模式，即第一年上升，随后下降，6年后再次上升。当时荷兰超重儿童的比例低于同时期或更早时期测量的美国、法国和挪威儿童。
1980年的荷兰儿童相对没有肥胖问题，因此BMI百分位数是监测此后肥胖症国际趋势的合适基线。
