ArticlePediatric obesity2018
Circannual variation in relative weight of children 5 to 16 years of age.
Article in Pediatric obesity, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Effect of COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdowns on Body Mass Index of Primary School Children from Different Socioeconomic Backgrounds.Sports medicine - open · 2024Article
- Seasonality of Children's Height and Weight and Their Contribution to Accelerated Summer Weight Gain.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Seasonal Variations in Childhood and Adolescent Growth: Experience of Pediatric Endocrine Clinics.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Effects of Screen Time and Season on Cardiovascular System Indicators in Primary Schoolchildren.Human physiology · 2021Article
- Physiological mechanisms underlying children's circannual growth patterns and their contributions to the obesity epidemic in elementary school age children.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2020Review
- Circannual growth in Wisconsin children and adolescents: Identifying optimal periods of obesity prevention.Pediatric obesity · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundSummer weight gain in children has been reported; however, this is usually based on two time points. Our objective was to investigate monthly variation in weight status.
methodsCross-sectional, de-identified health records including height, weight and demographics, collected between 2007 and 2012 from South Central Wisconsin in 70 531 children age 5-16 years were analysed. The monthly averages in body mass index (BMI) z-score were analysed cross-sectionally followed by a paired analysis for a subset with one visit each during school and summer months.
resultsBMI z-scores during the summer months (June-August) were lower than values during the school year (September-May). Of note, there was a rapid decrease in BMI z-scores from May to June, with June BMI z-score values being 0.065 units less (95% CI 0.046-0.085) than those in May, little change from June to August and a rapid increase between the August and September BMI z-scores.
conclusionThe monthly pattern does not fully agree with previous two-point school-based studies. Results raise concern that the use of two time point measures of BMIs (early fall and late spring) is suboptimal for evaluation of circannual variation. We suggest that future evaluation of the effect of school-based or summer interventions utilizes additional measures in those periods so that a seasonal analysis can be performed.
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