ESPE Abstracts

Aim: A decline in the age at menarche has been reported in recent years in several well-off populations. The prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity has increased during the last decades with some levelling off during the last years. The aim of the present study was to study the association between parameters of overweight and menarche in Norway.Material: Cross-sectional data from The Bergen Growth Study, collected in 2003–2006 from 4016 girl...

Background: Anthropometry is the general tool for defining overweight and obesity, with BMI cut-offs adjusted for sex and age, as the most commonly used variable in childhood.Objective and hypotheses: Based on the interrelationships between BMI and different overweight-related anthropometric variables we wanted to find out which anthropometric variables contribute most to the variation in BMI, and how age affect this picture?Method...