Trends in the prevalence of obesity, overweight, and thinness among schoolchildren aged 7-14 years from southern Brazil (2002-2019).
Mariana Winck SpanholiLuísa Harumi MatsuoDenise Miguel Teixeira RobertoLuciana Jeremias PereiraAna Luisa Lages BelchorVanessa Guimarães CezimbraCarlos Alencar Souza Alves JúniorFrancilene Gracieli Kunradi VieiraDiego Augusto Santos SilvaFrancisco de Assis Guedes de VasconcelosCláudia SoarElizabeth Nappi CorrêaGabriele RockenbachMaurício Soares LeiteMaria Alice Altenburg de AssisPatricia Faria Di PietroEmil KupekDanielle Biazzi LealPatrícia de Fragas HinnigPublished in: American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council (2023)
Obesity prevalence remains on an upward trend in a state capital in southern Brazil, especially among children from public schools. A higher prevalence of overweight and obesity was observed using the WHO criteria compared with IOTF criteria.