Brzeziński Michał, Jankowski Marek, Jankowska Agnieszka, Niedzielska Aleksandra, Kamińska Barbara
Department of Public Health and Social Medicine, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland.
Gdansk Center for Health Promotion, Gdansk, Poland.
Arch Med Sci. 2018 Jan;14(1):22-29. doi: 10.5114/aoms.2018.72239. Epub 2017 Dec 19.
The prevalence of overweight and obesity is not regularly screened among Polish children. Very few longitudinal data exist on the prevalence and increase of overweight and obesity in this population. The aim of the study was to analyze the prevalence of overweight and obesity among selected age categories of children from Gdansk, on the basis of 1992-2012 data.
The anthropometric data (body weight and height, body mass index) of 70,329 children aged between 6 and 13 years were analyzed. Data were collected during annually performed child health measurements in schools by medical staff of Gdansk Center for Health Promotion during 1992-2012.
No constant trend to increase or decrease in the prevalence of overweight or obesity was documented in any of the studied age groups ( > 0.05). An age-related increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity was observed throughout all consecutive age categories in boys and in prepubertal girls ( < 0.05). Overweight and obesity were significantly more frequent in girls than in boys from all age categories ( < 0.05), except 12- and 13-year-old children ( = 0.173; = 0.973), in whom no gender-specific differences were documented.
Our study did not confirm the previously reported growing tendency in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children. However, our findings point to an age-related increase in the prevalence of excess body weight in the pediatric population.
波兰儿童中未定期筛查超重和肥胖的患病率。关于该人群超重和肥胖的患病率及增长情况，纵向数据非常少。本研究的目的是基于1992 - 2012年的数据，分析格但斯克特定年龄组儿童中超重和肥胖的患病率。
分析了70329名6至13岁儿童的人体测量数据（体重、身高、体重指数）。这些数据是1992 - 2012年期间由格但斯克健康促进中心的医务人员在学校每年进行的儿童健康测量中收集的。
在任何研究年龄组中均未记录到超重或肥胖患病率持续上升或下降的趋势（>0.05）。在男孩和青春期前女孩的所有连续年龄类别中，均观察到超重和肥胖患病率随年龄增长而增加（<0.05）。除12岁和13岁儿童外（=0.173；=0.973），所有年龄组中女孩超重和肥胖的发生率均显著高于男孩，在12岁和13岁儿童中未发现性别差异。
我们的研究未证实先前报道的儿童超重和肥胖患病率上升趋势。然而，我们的研究结果表明儿科人群中超重患病率随年龄增长而增加。
