Results of the child obesity – „Tabula rasa” screening program

*Judit Kormos-Tasi¹, László Szabó¹, Éva Bossányi², Erika Gácsi¹, Márta Jávor¹

Summary
Aim. In Budapest, between April 2010 and May 2011 we carried out a screening program by the competition of the Capital Council along with the medical and professional supervising of the „Heim Pál” Hospital on 2467 students between the age of 15 and 18 (1509 girls and 958 boys). Looking at their health behaviour they belong to the risk group, as they do not care enough about themselves or not in the right way.
Material and methods. In the health screening program the aimed group was the students in the 10^th or 11^th year in high school. The participation in the screening program was voluntary and had to be contributed by the parents. The screening and the following medical consultations areas are: full orthopedic screening, eyesight screening, hearing screening, dentistry screening, internal medicine screening, celiac screening, cardiovascular screening and mental hygiene test.
The cardiovascular screening of pre-recorded professional medical protocol, blood pressure, heart rate, body composition determination, BMI, cholesterol, blood glucose was present. Body Mass Index (weight/height²) value was calculated.
The body composition measurements were done by the InBody3.0 multi-frequency, segmental impedance meter. This survey was used in the body fat values. Among boys above 25%, among girls above 30% we considered the body fat abnormally dangerous (1). We measured the blood pressure by an automatic blood pressure meter after a rest. According to the Hungarian Hypertension Association’s advice we considered the 130 mmHg systolic and 85 mmHg diastolic as the boarder of the hypertension. For the determination of the cholesterol and blood glucose we used an enzymatic, colorimetric methodology. The serum cholesterol level above 5.0 mmol/l in fasting blood glucose 5.5 mmol/l was considered abnormal.
Processing the details was done by Microsoft Office Excel.
Results. The tests showed that there were 231 cases of high body fat percentage, 671 cases of high blood pressure, changes in lipid values in 64 cases, high in fasting blood glucose in 37 cases.
Conclusions. The results of the cardiovascular tests confirm that obesity among youngsters is increasing. Family paediatricians, school doctors and health visitors working in primary care it is very important to influence and stimulate youngsters towards a healthy way of life and to prevent sickness.

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