Abstract
Age and Gender Differences in Nutritional Status of School Children According to WHO, CDC and IOTF References: A Statewide Study from Montenegro
Highlights
According to World Health Organization (WHO), increasing trend of obesity among children and preadolescents is one of the leading health problems (WHO, 1995)
Since the changes in nutritional status can be noticed in quickly accessible body composition characteristics such as body mass (BM), body height (BH) or waist circumference (WC), the analysis of body composition became a standard tool in epidemiological and statewide studies (WHO, 2000)
This study evaluated the nutritional status of children in Montenegro through three different references
Summary
According to World Health Organization (WHO), increasing trend of obesity among children and preadolescents is one of the leading health problems (WHO, 1995). In majority of cases the obesity is caused by a nutritional disbalance due to higher calorie intake than can be spent during the day, which leads to storing the excess energy as fat tissue (Lukaski, 2017). Since the changes in nutritional status can be noticed in quickly accessible body composition characteristics such as body mass (BM), body height (BH) or waist circumference (WC), the analysis of body composition became a standard tool in epidemiological and statewide studies (WHO, 2000). In this type of research morphological measurements represent a basis for obtaining data (Bjelica, 2010). In addition to the above references, several countries have developed national references to growth and development on nationally significant samples of their populations using similar methodology (Tambalis et al, 2015), but this is not case in Montenegro
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