High blood pressure screening in children and adolescents from Amargosa, Bahia: usefulness of anthropometric indices of obesity.

Objective: To determine the predictive power of body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), and their respective cut-off points for high blood pressure (BP) screening in Brazilian children and adolescents.

Method: Cross-sectional study conducted with 1,139 students aged 6 to 17years. Body weight, height, WC, and BP were measured.

Utility of anthropometric indicators to screen for clustered cardiometabolic risk factors in children and adolescents.

Background Anthropometric indicators are associated with cardiometabolic risk factors (CMRF), but there is no consensus as to which indicator is the most suitable to screen for clustered CMRF. This study aimed to evaluate the utility of five anthropometric indicators to screen for clustered CMRF in children and adolescents. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted in 1139 schoolchildren aged 6-17 years from Northeastern Brazil.

[Changes in the physical activity of university students: association with health information and access to places for practicing].

Objective: To evaluate changes in the physical activity level (PAL) of students within the first two years of studies and their association with access to health information and places for physical activity.

Methods: The sample included students who were admitted to the Federal University of Reconcavo in Bahia, Brazil, and were observed during their first two years of studies. Socioeconomic and demographic aspects, as well as body mass, height, health information and access to places for physical activity were assessed through a self-report.

ANTHROPOMETRY AND CLUSTERED CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK FACTORS IN YOUNG PEOPLE: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW.

Objective: To conduct a systematic review of the literature on the ability of anthropometric indicators to predict clustered cardiometabolic risk factors (CMRF) in children and adolescents.

Data Source: Studies published from June 1st, 2011 to May 31st, 2016 in the PubMed, SciELO and LILACS databases were analyzed. The research was based on keywords derived from the terms "anthropometric indicators" AND "cardiometabolic risk factors".

Utility of body mass index, waist circumference and waist-to-height ratio as screening tools for hyperglycemia in young people.

Objectives: To evaluate the ability of BMI, WC and WHtR to discriminate hyperglycemia in young people, and to determine whether there is an increase in the accuracy with the addition of WC and/or WHtR to BMI.

Subjects And Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 1,139 schoolchildren aged 6 to 17 years from Northeastern Brazil. Body weight, height, WC and fasting glucose levels were measured, and the BMI and WHtR were calculated.

Number of Daily Steps to Discriminate Abdominal Obesity in a Sample of Brazilian Children and Adolescents.

Purpose: Weight status-referenced pedometer step-count guidelines for young people have been developed for populations from high-income countries and may not be applicable to middle- and low-income countries. The objectives of this study were 1) to develop cut-off points for pedometer-determined step count in young Brazilians using waist circumference (WC) as a reference criterion, and 2) to analyze the capacity of previous recommendations to discriminate abdominal obesity in the sample studied.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 1,044 schoolchildren (456 boys) aged 6-17 years from Northeastern Brazil.

[Epidemiological survey in schoolchildren: determinants and prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors].

This study focused on the prevalence of dyslipidemia, high blood glucose, and high blood pressure in scho-olchildren and the associations with demographic, socioeconomic, biological, and behavior factors using a cross-sectional design with 1,139 schoolchildren from six to 18 years of age in Amargosa, Bahia State, Brazil. Prevalence ratio (PR) was used as the measure of association. Prevalence rates for dyslipidemia, high blood glucose, and high blood pressure were 62.

Cut-off values for step count and TV viewing time as discriminators of hyperglycaemia in Brazilian children and adolescents.

Background: The use of step count and TV viewing time to discriminate youngsters with hyperglycaemia is still a matter of debate.

Aim: To establish cut-off values for step count and TV viewing time in children and adolescents using glycaemia as the reference criterion.

Subjects And Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 1044 schoolchildren aged 6-18 years from Northeastern Brazil.

[Knowledge of pediatricians regarding physical activity in childhood and adolescence].

Objective:: To investigate the knowledge and guidance given by pediatricians regarding physical activity in childhood and adolescence.

Methods:: A cross-sectional study involving a convenience sample of pediatricians (=210) who participated in a national pediatrics congress in 2013. Sociodemographic and professional data and data regarding habitual physical activity and pediatricians’ knowledge and instructions for young people regarding physical activity were collected using a questionnaire.

[Association of overweight with socio-demographic variables and lifestyle among Brazilian university students].

Objective: To investigate the association of overweight with socio-demographic variables and lifestyle among freshmen of a Brazilian public university.

Participants: A total of 685 students were evaluated in April 2008.

Methods: Overweight was determined based on body mass index.

[Sociodemographic variables as determinant of the environment domain of quality of life of adolescents].

This study aimed to identify the relationship between sociodemographic variables and environment domain of Quality of Life (QOL) of adolescents. The sample was composed by 608 adolescents aged 14 to 20 years, from the municipality of Lapa, Paraná State, South of Brazil. The WHOQOL-Bref and ABEP questionnaires were used, respectively, to assess the QOL and socioeconomic condition.