Prevalence and factors associated with overweight and obesity among private kindergarten school children in Bahirdar Town, Northwest Ethiopia: cross-sectional study

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• 作者：Yoseph Tadesse ; Terefe Derso ; Kefyalew Addis Alene…
• 关键词：Overweight ; Obesity ; Kindergarten ; Malnutrition ; Children ; Ethiopia
• 刊名：BMC Research Notes
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：10
• 期：1
• 全文大小：799KB
• 刊物主题：Biomedicine, general; Medicine/Public Health, general; Life Sciences, general;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1756-0500
• 卷排序：10

文摘

BackgroundIn Sub-Saharan Africa, most nutrition efforts have concentrated on under-nutrition in children. However, national surveys rarely report the high prevalence of overweight and obesity among children. Likewise, in Ethiopia there is growing recognition of the emergence of a “double-burden” of malnutrition, with under and over nutrition occurring simultaneously among children, especially allied with improvements in socio-economic conditions. Hence, the study aimed to assess the prevalence and factors associated with overweight and obesity among private kindergarten school children aged 3–6 years in Bahirdar town, Northwest Ethiopia.