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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/7470| Title: | WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative: body mass index and level of overweight among 6-9-year-old children from school year 2007/2008 to school year 2009/2010 | Authors: | Wijnhoven, Trudy M A van Raaij, Joop M A Spinelli, Angela Starc, Gregor Hassapidou, Maria Spiroski, Igor Rutter, Harry Martos, Éva Rito, Ana I Hovengen, Ragnhild Pérez-Farinós, Napoleón Petrauskiene, Ausra Eldin, Nazih Braeckevelt, Lien Pudule, Iveta Kunešová, Marie Breda, João |
Issue Date: | 7-Aug-2014 | Publisher: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC | Journal: | BMC public health | Abstract: | The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe has established the Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) to monitor changes in overweight in primary-school children. The aims of this paper are to present the anthropometric results of COSI Round 2 (2009/2010) and to explore changes in body mass index (BMI) and overweight among children within and across nine countries from school years 2007/2008 to 2009/2010. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/7470 | DOI: | 10.1186/1471-2458-14-806 |
| Appears in Collections: | Faculty of Medicine: Journal Articles |
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