The Spreading Worldwide Obesity Epidemic

摘要

The article by Gene Burazeri et al. that appears in this issue of the Journal titled Prevalence and demographic correlates of overweight and obesity among children in a transitional Southeastern European population is a very well designed epidemiological study with a remarkable response rate (97 %) for the number of participants involved (n = 5,810)! The study is well written and makes some very important observations. Of interest is the fact that the obesity rate was lower for girls. This is a bit unusual, but this perhaps could be explained by the younger age of the children and by the fact that they were likely pre-pubes-cent.