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- Title
Changing Characteristics of Obese Children and Adolescents Entering Pediatric Lifestyle Intervention Programs in Germany over the Last 11 Years: An Adiposity Patients Registry Multicenter Analysis of 65,453 Children and Adolescents.
- Authors
Bohn, Barbara; Wiegand, Susanna; Kiess, Wieland; Reinehr, Thomas; Stachow, Rainer; Oepen, Johannes; Langhof, Helmut; Hermann, Thomas; Widhalm, Kurt; Wabitsch, Martin; Gellhaus, Ines; Holl, Reinhard
- Abstract
Objective: To examine whether characteristics of children and adolescents who start lifestyle intervention (LI) for obesity in Germany changed over the last decade. Methods: 65,453 subjects (<21 years) from the APV database (Adiposity Patients Registry) with a BMI ≥ 90th percentile were included (years 2005-2015). Logistic regression models (confounders: age, sex, migration background) were created for overweight, obesity, extreme obesity, and obesity-related comorbidities. Comorbidities were further adjusted for weight category. Results were stratified by inpatient or outpatient care. Results: Extreme obesity was found to be more frequent at the onset of LI (2005: 11.6; 2015: 12.7%) with a similar trend in subgroups (p < 0.001). Obesity increased (2005: 50.3%; 2015: 55.1%), and overweight decreased (2005: 34.1%; 2015: 29.0%) in the whole study population. Trends were similar for inpatient or outpatient care (all p < 0.001). Hypertension increased from 45.7% to 49.2% in the whole study population, and similar data were obtained in the subgroup of inpatients (both p < 0.0001). Dyslipidemia increased in all patients (2005: 21.9%; 2015: 28.0%) and in inpatients (2005: 20.2%; 2015: 25.7%; both p < 0.0001). Abnormal carbohydrate metabolism rose in all patients (from 5.2 to 6.4%; p = 0.0002) without significant trends in subgroups. Conclusion: During the last decade, children and adolescents presented with higher BMI SDS at the onset of LI and the proportion with obesity-related comorbidities increased. Particularly the presence of comorbidities differed between outpatients and inpatients.
- Subjects
PEDIATRICS; ADOLESCENT obesity; BODY mass index; NUTRITION disorders; PHYSICAL activity
- Publication
Obesity Facts: The European Journal of Obesity, 2017, Vol 10, Issue 5, p517
- ISSN
1662-4025
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1159/000479631