Dressed or undressed? How to measure children's body weight in overweight surveillance?

摘要

Objective: To simplify body weight measurement and, particularly, to encourage children and their parents to participate in the Italian nutritional surveillance system OKkio alla SALUTE, children were measured with clothes and then the weight was corrected for the estimated weight of the clothes. In the present study we compared the children's weight measured in underwear, as recommended by the WHO (W-WHO), with that obtained using the OKkio alla SALUTE protocol (W-OK) and investigated how the latter affects the calculation of BMI and the assessment of overweight and obesity prevalence.