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Age- and weight group-specific weight gain patterns in children and adolescents during the 15 years before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Background/Objectives: There is a concern that measures aiming to limit a further spread of COVID-19, e.g., school closures and social distancing, cause an aggravation of the childhood obesity epidemic. Therefore, we compared BMI trends during the 15 years before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Subjects/Methods: To assess the change in weight dynamics during the first months of COVID-19, we compared the trends of 3-month change in BMI-SDS (ΔBMI-SDS) and the proportions of children showing a high positive (HPC) or high negative (HNC) weight change between 2005 and 2019 and the respective changes from 2019 (pre-pandemic) to 2020 (after the onset of anti-pandemic measures) in more than 150,000 children (9689 during the pandemic period). The period of 3 months corresponds approximately to the first lockdown period in Germany. Results: During the COVID-19 pandemic, we found a substantial weight gain across all weight and age groups, reflected by an increase in the 3-month change in BMI-SDS ( β = 0.05, p < 0.001), an increase in the proportion of children showing HPC (OR = 1.4, p < 0.001), and a decrease in the proportion of children showing HNC (OR = 0.7, p < 0.001). Besides, we found the same trends since 2005 on a low but stable level with a yearly increase of ΔBMI-SDS by β = 0.001 ( p < 0.001), the odds of HPC increased by OR high_pos = 1.01 ( p < 0.001), and the odds of HNC decreased by OR high_neg = 0.99 ( p < 0.001). These rather small effects accumulated to β = 0.02, OR high_pos = 1.14, and OR high_pos = 0.85 over the whole period 2005–2019. Alarmingly, both the long-term and the short-term effects were most pronounced in the obese subgroup. Conclusions: There are positive dynamics in different measures of weight change, indicating a positive trend in weight gain patterns, especially within the group of children with obesity. These dynamics are likely to be escalated by COVID-19-related measures. Thus, they may lead to a significant further aggravation of the childhood obesity pandemic.
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- Vogel, M., Geserick, M., Gausche, R., Beger, C., Poulain, T., Meigen, C., Körner, A., Keller, E., Kiess, W., & Pfäffle, R.
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- International Journal of Obesity
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- 2021-09-23
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- 46
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- 144-152
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- 0307-0565 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-5497
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- FWCI
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