ArticlePediatric obesity2022
Exploring an algorithm to harmonize International Obesity Task Force and World Health Organization child overweight and obesity prevalence rates.
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Abstract
backgroundThe International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) and World Health Organization (WHO) body mass index (BMI) cut-offs are widely used to assess child overweight, obesity and thinness prevalence, but the two references applied to the same children lead to different prevalence rates.
objectivesTo develop an algorithm to harmonize prevalence rates based on the IOTF and WHO cut-offs, to make them comparable.
methodsThe cut-offs are defined as age-sex-specific BMI z-scores, for example, WHO +1 SD for overweight. To convert an age-sex-specific prevalence rate based on reference cut-off A to the corresponding prevalence based on reference cut-off B, first back-transform the z-score cut-offs
resultsThe algorithm performed well. The standard deviation (SD) of the difference between pairs of prevalence rates was 6.6% (n = 604), while the residual SD, the difference between observed and predicted prevalence, was 2.3%, meaning that the algorithm explained 88% of the baseline variance.
conclusionsThe algorithm goes some way to addressing the problem of harmonizing overweight and obesity prevalence rates for children aged 2-18.
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