Deutsches Aerzteblatt International
Augsburg: Weight issues in children starting school
Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, January 5th, 2009
Immigrant children have a greater risk of suffering from overweight and obesity. This is the result of a study from Augsburg with 2306 children examined on starting school. Elisabeth Weber and her coauthors present the results in the current issue of Deutsches Arzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztbl Int 2008; 105 [51-52]: 883-9). The doctors recorded not only the age, sex, weight, and height of the children, but also their mother tongue. Their parents had to answer a questionnaire covering sporting activity, amount of television watched, and eating behavior.
German was the mother tongue of 1398 of the children examined. Turkish was the most frequent foreign language (395...
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