28.01.2017 | Short Communication
Updated prevalence rates of overweight and obesity in 4- to 10-year-old children in Germany. Results from the telephone-based KiGGS Wave 1 after correction for bias in parental reports
Erschienen in: European Journal of Pediatrics | Ausgabe 4/2017
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What is Known:
• In the last decades, prevalence of overweight and obesity has risen. Now a days, the prevalence seems to be stagnating.
• In Germany, prevalence estimates of overweight and obesity are only available from regional or non-representative studies.
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What is New:
• This article gives an update for prevalence rates of overweight and obesity amongst children aged 4–10 years in Germany based on a nationwide and representative sample.
• Results show that stagnation in prevalence rates for overweight in children in Germany is reached.
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