160
Views
3
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Papers

Comparison of growth and nutritional status of Chinese and Japanese children and adolescents

, , , , , , , , , , , & show all
Pages 425-433 | Received 07 Jan 2019, Accepted 22 Apr 2020, Published online: 07 Sep 2020

References

  • Asiya A, Liu Y, He ZF. 2013. Physical activity in the daily life of children and adolescents in Chengdu. Chin J Sch Health. 34:677–679. (in Chinese).
  • Bi ZW, Ji CY. 2005. Secular growth changes in body height and weight in children and adolescents in Shandong, China between 1939 and 2000. Ann Hum Biol. 32:650–665.
  • Chen TJ, Modin B, Ji CY, Hjern A. 2011. Regional, socioeconomic and urban-rural disparities in child and adolescent obesity in China: a multilevel analysis. Acta Paediatr. 100(12):1583–1589.
  • Cole TJ. 2003. The secular trend in human physical growth: a biological view. Econ Hum Biol. 1(2):161–168.
  • Cole TJ, Roede MJ. 1999. Centiles of mass index for Dutch children aged 0–20 years in 1980: a baseline to assess recent trends in obesity. Ann Hum Biol. 26(4):303–308.
  • Dong YH, Wang ZH, Yang ZG, Wang XJ, Chen YJ, Zou ZY, Ma J. 2017. Epidemic status and secular trends of malnutrition among children and adolescents aged 7–18 years from 2005 to 2014 in China. Beijing Da Xue Xue Bao Yi Xue Ban. 49:424–432. (in Chinese).
  • Gali N, Tamiru D, Tamrat M. 2017. The emerging nutritional problems of school adolescents: overweight/obesity and associated factors in Jimma town, Ethiopia. J Pediatr Nurs. 35:98–104.
  • He LL, Lin L. 2016. The trend of physical activity among Chinese urban school-age children. Chin J Sch Health. 37:636–640. (in Chinese).
  • Ji CY, Chen TJ, Sun X. 2013. Secular changes on the distribution of body mass index among Chinese children and adolescents, 1985–2010. Biomed Environ Sci. 26(7):520–530.
  • Ji CY, Cheng TO. 2008. Prevalence and geographic distribution of childhood obesity in China in 2005. Int J Cardiol. 131(1):1–8.
  • Ji CY, Hu PJ, He ZH. 2007. Secular growth trends in the Chinese urban youth and its implications on public health. J Peking Univ Health Sci. 39:126–131. (in Chinese).
  • Ji CY, Zhang X, Yin XJ, Hu PJ, Xi W. 2011. Comparison on the mean heights and their changes between the Chinese and Japanese students. Chin J Sch Health. 32:1168–1173. (in Chinese).
  • Ji Z, Cui YP, Li L. 2015. Sampling study on physical activity and dietary caloric intake among obese schoolchildren aged 9–11 years. Chin J Sports Med. 34:197–200. (in Chinese).
  • Kagawa M, Hills AP. 2011. Secular changes in BMI and obesity risk in Japanese children: considerations from a morphologic perspective. TOOBESJ. 3(1):9–16.
  • Kagawa M, Tahara Y, Moji K, Moji K, Nakao R, Aoyagi K, Hills AP. 2011. Secular changes in growth among Japanese children over 100 years (1900–2000). Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 20:180–189.
  • Kohri T, Kaba N, Itoh T, Sasaki S. 2016. Effects of the National School Lunch Program on Bone Growth in Japanese Elementary School Children. J Nutr Sci Vitaminol. 62(5):303–309.
  • Li PH, Wang M. 2016. Investigation on Chinese children and youth physical activity status and influence factors. Chin J Sch Health. 37:805–813. (in Chinese).
  • Liu XL, Tian Q, Yan DD, Cui XF. 2016. Analysis of the differences in dietary structure based on human trophic levels between Chinese urban and rural residents. Acta Nutrimenta Sinica. 38:332–335.
  • Meng XK, Zou ZY, Shang XR, Zhou J, Ma R, Ma J. 2015. Association between dietary patterns and overweight and obesity of children and adolescents. Chin J Sch Health. 36:648–650. (in Chinese).
  • Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. 2013. [The National School Health Survey 2012]. Tokyo (Japan): Nikkei Printing. (Japanese)
  • Murasko JE. 2013. Associations between household income, height, and BMI in contemporary US schoolchildren. Econ Hum Biol. 11(2):185–196.
  • Murphy R, Stewart AW, Hancox RJ, Wall CR, Braithwaite I, Beasley R, Mitchell EA; the ISAAC Phase Three Study Group. 2018. Obesity, underweight and BMI distribution characteristics of children by gross national income and income inequality: results from an international survey. Obes Sci Pract. 4(3):216–228.
  • NCD Risk Factor Collaboration. 2017. Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128.9 million children, adolescents, and adults. Lancet. 390:2627–2642.
  • Okada T. 2009. Child obesity. Osaka: Nagai Shoten.
  • Ong KK, Ahmed ML, Dunger DB. 2006. Lessons from large population studies on timing and tempo of puberty (secular trends and relation to body size): the European trend. Mol Cell Endocrinol. 254–255:8–12.
  • Østergaard L, Grøntved A, Børrestad LA, Froberg K, Gravesen M, Andersen LB. 2012. Cycling to school is associated with lower BMI and lower odds of being overweight or obese in a large population-based study of Danish adolescents. J Phys Act Health. 9(5):617–625.
  • Pan H, Cole T. 2010. User’s Guide to LMS Chartmaker. London (UK): Medical Research Council.
  • Popkin BM. 2002. The shift in stages of the nutrition transition in the developing world differs from past experiences!. Public Health Nutr. 5(1A):205–214.
  • Qin QL, Yang H. 2015. Association of lifestyle and overweight/obesity among urban school-age children in Guangxi. Chin J Sch Health. 36:549–555. (in Chinese).
  • Ren H, Zhou Z, Liu WK, Wang X, Yin Z. 2017. Excessive homework, inadequate sleep, physical inactivity and screen viewing time are major contributors to high paediatric obesity. Acta Paediatr. 106(1):120–127.
  • Ringback WG, Eliasson M, Rosen M. 2008. Underweight, overweight and obesity as risk factors for mortality and hospitalization. Scand J Public Health. 36(2):169–176.
  • Sandhu N, Witmans MB, Lemay JF, Crawford S, Jadavji N, Pacaud D. 2008. Prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus. J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab. 21:631–640.
  • Sellami HM, Umehara T, Yamazaki Y, Matoba R, Sakashita Abe Y, Otake H, et al. 2017. Childhood obesity in Japan: trends in obesity prevalence among Japanese kids under 17 years old from 2007 to 2016. Int J Med Health Sci. 11(9):1.
  • Song Y, Agardh A, Ma J, Li L, Lei Y, Stafford RS, Prochaska JJ. 2019. National trends in stunting, thinness and overweight among Chinese school-aged children, 1985–2014. Int J Obes (Lond). 43(2):402–411.
  • Song Y, Wang HJ, Ma J, Wang Z. 2013. Secular trends of obesity prevalence in urban Chinese children from 1985 to 2010: gender disparity. Plos One. 8(1):e53069.
  • Tanaka C, Tanaka S, Inoue S, Miyachi M, Suzuki K, Reilly JJ. 2016. Results from Japan’s 2016 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth. J Phys Act Health. 13 (11 Suppl 2):S189–S194.
  • The World Bank 2008. Gini index (World Bank estimate). [accessed 2019 August 28]. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI/countries?display=default
  • The World Bank 2014a. GNI per capita. [accessed 2020 February 27]. https://data.worldbank.org.cn/indicator/NY.GNP.PCAP.KN?locations=CN
  • The World Bank. 2014b. Urban population (% of total). [accessed 2019 August 28]. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.INZS?display=default
  • United Nations Development Programme. 2011. Human Development Reports. [accessed 2019 August28]. http://www.undp.org/content/dam/undp/library/corporate/HDR/2011%20Global%20HDR/English/HDR_2011_EN_Complete.pdf
  • Wang HJ, Zhang B. 2016. Cohort research on dietary behaviors among Chinese children and adolescents. J Hygiene Res. 45:867.
  • Wang XF, Ma XL. 2014. Population factor’s effects on Japanese economic growth during the accelerated period of aging: from the perspective of double inflection point of population and economy. Contemp Econ Jpn. 197:2–12.
  • Wang XL, Su C, Ouyang YF, Li WD, Zhang B, Wang HJ. 2016. Trends of the changes in dietary pattern of children and adolescents in communities at different urbanization levels. Acta Nutrimenta Sin. 38:119–123. (in Chinese).
  • WHO 2010a. Childhood overweight and obesity. [accessed 2019 August 28]. http://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/childhood/en
  • WHO 2010b. WHO Child Growth Standards, Genava. [accessed November 10]. http://www.who.int/growthref/en/
  • Wolde M, Berhan Y, Chala A. 2015. Determinants of underweight, stunting and wasting among schoolchildren. BMC Public Health. 15:8.
  • Wu HP, Yin XJ, Chai XJ, Li YQ, Wang GD, Yang XF, Sun Y, et al. 2019. Research on mental sub-health of Chinese Han adolescents with different nutritional statuses. Ann Med-Psychol. 177(4):313–318.
  • Yin XJ, Chen HM, Yang J. 2010. Comparative study into the BMI longitudinal change between Chinese and Japanese teenagers. J Chengdu Sport Univ. 36:83–87. (in Chinese).
  • Yin XJ, Huang CQ, Chen HM, Tanaka T. 2005. Associations of physique with the socioeconomic factors of family and regional origin in Chinese university students. Environ Health Prev Med. 10(4):190–200.
  • Yin XJ, Ji CY. 2014. Malnutrition prevalence in Lasa Xizang children and adolescents. Biomed Environ Sci. 27(8):614–626.
  • Yin XJ, Xu YT, Ji L, Ji CY. 2016. Nutrition in Chinese-Korean children and adolescents. Biomed Environ Sci. 29(1):24–40.
  • Zong XN, Li H, Wu HH, Zhang YQ. 2015. Socioeconomic development and secular trend in height in China. Econ Hum Biol. 19:258–264.
  • Zong XN, Li H, Zhang YQ, Wu HH. 2019. Child nutrition to new stage in China: evidence from a series of national surveys, 1985–2015. BMC Public Health. 19(1):402.
  • Zong XN, Li H. 2014. Physical growth of children and adolescents in China over the past 35 years. Bull World Health Organ. 92(8):555–564.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.