dc.contributor.author	Keane, Eimear
dc.contributor.author	Kearney, Patricia M.
dc.contributor.author	Perry, Ivan J.
dc.contributor.author	Kelleher, Cecily C.
dc.contributor.author	Harrington, Janas M.
dc.contributor.funder	Health Research Board	en
dc.contributor.funder	National Children’s Research Centre, Ireland	en
dc.date.accessioned	2016-01-21T09:30:29Z
dc.date.available	2016-01-21T09:30:29Z
dc.date.issued	2014-10-14
dc.description.abstract	BACKGROUND: The prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity in developed countries appears to be levelling off. As trends in childhood obesity prevalence have not been examined over the past decade in the Republic of Ireland, this systematic review aims to compile and synthesise all available information on the prevalence of overweight and obesity in primary school aged children between 2002 and 2012. METHODS: Systematic review of published and grey literature containing data on objectively measured height and weight. Inclusion criteria included studies where data was collected between 2002 and 2012 from at least 200 primary school aged children in the Republic of Ireland. Database searching, Google searching, reference searching and contact with obesity experts was undertaken. Overweight, obesity and morbid obesity were defined using standard International Obesity Taskforce definitions. Study quality was assessed. RESULTS: Fourteen studies (16 prevalence estimates) met the inclusion criteria. The combined prevalence of overweight and obesity within the studies ranged from 20-34%. No significant trend in overweight prevalence over time was observed (p=0.6). However, there was evidence of a slight decrease in obesity prevalence over the period (p=0.01), with a similar though non-significant decline in the prevalence of morbid obesity (p=0.2). CONCLUSION: The findings of this systematic review require cautious interpretation though the prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity in the Republic of Ireland has reached a plateau and may be falling. These findings provide some ground for optimism though the current plateau is at an unacceptably high level. Thus current population based preventive strategies need to be sustained and intensified.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	Health Research Board, HRB Centre for Health and Diet Research; National Children's Research Centre, Dublin	en
dc.description.status	Peer reviewed	en
dc.description.version	Published Version	en
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en
dc.identifier.articleid	974
dc.identifier.citation	KEANE, E., KEARNEY, P. M., PERRY, I. J., KELLEHER, C. C. & HARRINGTON, J. M. 2014. Trends and prevalence of overweight and obesity in primary school aged children in the Republic of Ireland from 2002-2012: a systematic review. BMC Public Health, 14: 974, 1-15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-974	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1186/1471-2458-14-974
dc.identifier.endpage	15	en
dc.identifier.issn	1471-2458
dc.identifier.journaltitle	BMC Public Health	en
dc.identifier.startpage	1	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10468/2204
dc.identifier.volume	15	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Biomed Central Ltd.	en
dc.rights	© 2014 Keane et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd., 2014. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	en
dc.subject	Ireland	en
dc.subject	Prevalence	en
dc.subject	Trends	en
dc.subject	Obesity	en
dc.subject	Children	en
dc.subject	Body mass index	en
dc.subject	Childhood obesity	en
dc.subject	Physical activity	en
dc.subject	Intervention	en
dc.subject	Cohort	en
dc.subject	Adolescents	en
dc.subject	Worldwide	en
dc.subject	Weight	en
dc.subject	Height	en
dc.title	Trends and prevalence of overweight and obesity in primary school aged children in the Republic of Ireland from 2002-2012: a systematic review	en
dc.type	Article (peer-reviewed)	en

Trends and prevalence of overweight and obesity in primary school aged children in the Republic of Ireland from 2002-2012: a systematic review

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