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Volume 7, Issue 3 (Suppl) J Obes Weight Loss Ther, an open access journal
ISSN: 2165-7904 Childhood Obesity & Bariatric Surgery 2017
June 12-13, 2017
June 12-13, 2017 Rome, Italy
& Childhood Obesity and Nutrition
10th International Conference on
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
2nd International Conference on
JOINT EVENT
Childhood obesity and nutrition in children age in Bulgaria
Svetoslav Handjiev1 and Teodora Handjieva-Darlenska2
1Bulgaria. Bulgarian Association for the Study of Obesity and Related Diseases (BASORD), Bulgaria
2Medical University-Sofia, Bulgaria
In the last decades childhood obesity is growing progressively worldwide. According to WHO Bulgaria is on the fifth place of
childhood obesity among 53 member countries in Europe. Furthermore, according to the National survey on nutrition in the
population above 1-years old obesity in boys below 5 years was 7.1% in 2014 in comparison with 3.3% in the same age in 2004. There
is a positive trend towards a slight decrease in obesity levels in girls below 5 years with 2.7% in 2014 compared to 5.4% in 2004.
However, the data presented on October 9th 2016, the World Obesity Day, showed that in Bulgaria 230 000 school-age children are
expected to be overweight or obese by 2025. Obesity puts our children health in danger. By 2025 as many as 8 000 will have impaired
glucose tolerance, 2 000 will have type 2 diabetes, 18 000 will have high blood pressure, 25 000 will have first stage fatty liver disease.
The reasons of these striking numbers are clear: a sedentary lifestyle and a poor nutrition. Data show that there is an increase in the
consumption of sugar-containing food and beverages, in salt, very early beginning of alcohol consumption, low intake of yoghurt and
fish in school-age children in Bulgaria. The European project EPHE (EPODE for the promotion of healthy equity) demonstrated that
Bulgarian children between 6-9 years old consume more fruit and vegetables compared to the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. On
the other hand, Bulgarian children spend approximately 26 hour weekly screen time compared to the children in the Netherlands with
14.5 hours. Since 2013 BASORD organizes annually 1-week “School for health – for children, parents and teachers” with promotion
of healthy lifestyle, incl. increased physical activity and good nutrition habits. This initiative is one of the few in this field. Bulgaria
doesn’t have a working state programme for prevention of childhood overweigh and obesity.
Anthropometric measurements, skinfold thicknesses and blood pressure: Differences among normal weight,
overweight and obese school going girls
Tejashree A Joshi and Prajakta J Nande
Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, India
The purpose of this study was to see the differences in normal weight, overweight and obese school going girls between the age of
10 years, 11 years and 12 years as far as blood pressure and anthropometric measurements skin fold measurements are concerned.
The study subjects were normal weight, overweight and obese female children of randomly selected schools in Mumbai city. They
were 10-12 years old (n=450). Anthropometric measurements including standing height, body weight, waist circumference, hip
circumference, waist to hip ratio, subscapular and triceps skinfold thickness measurements as well as blood pressure parameters were
taken. The results suggest that the mean values of standing height of normal weight girls of all age groups (10 years, 11 years and
12 years) were higher compared with the mean values of overweight and obese girls. Despite this, the mean values of all the other
anthropometric measurements including body weight, BMI, MUAC relaxed, waist circumference, hip circumference and WHR as
well as skin fold measurements and blood pressure parameters of normal weight girls were lower compared with the mean values of
overweight and obese girls. The study concluded that there is a vast difference between the school going female children between 10
years, 11 years and 12 years of age as far as anthropometric measurements, SFT measurements and blood pressure parameters are
concerned. From a public health perspective, present study emphasizes the importance of primary prevention of overweight from
early childhood with continuation of health promotion activities throughout the course of life.
J Obes Weight Loss Ther 2017, 7:3 (Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2165-7904-C1-046