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Growth and Development of Fat in Adolescent School Children in Victoria Part 1. Normal Growth Values and Prevalence of Obesity
Author(s) -
COURT J. M.,
DUNLOP MARJORIE,
REYNOLDS M.,
RUSSELL J.,
GRIFFITHS LEONIE
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1976.tb02518.x
Subject(s) - medicine , overweight , obesity , normal weight , skinfold thickness , demography , pediatrics , body height , body weight , sociology
Court, J. M., Dunlop, Marjorie, Reynolds, M., Russell, J. and Griffiths, Leonie (1976).Aust. paediat. J. , 12, 296–304. Growth and development of fat in adolescent school children in Victoria. Part I. Normal growth values and prevalence of obesity. A cross‐sectional study of 5347 Victorian secondary school children aged 11–18 years is reported. Measurements of height, weight and skinfold thickness over triceps and subscapular regions have been used to construct centile charts for these parameters. Centile values for Victorian children indicate that they are somewhat shorter than British children and have somewhat greater triceps skinfold thickness measurements. Obesity has been defined as a weight 20% in excess of the expected weight for height and age. On this basis, and comparing each child to the normal data, the prevalence of obesity was approximately 8% for girls and from 3.5 to 6.3% with increasing age for boys. From 17–20% of girls and 9–15% of boys were overweight by 10% or more of their expected weight for height.