Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology - contenuto non piu disponibile

School-based anthropometric observations represent a potential approach to address children and their families to correct life habits. On October 2007, weights and standing heights of 261 6yr-old primary school children (116 girls; 145 boys) in Voghera (Pavia, Italy) were measured, and Body Mass Indices (BMI) calculated. Measurements were repeated 1 and 2 years later. Descriptive statistics of each parameter were computed within sex and session (Tab. 1). Comparisons were performed by ANOVA (F1, factor 1, sex; F2, factor 2, age; F1×F2 interaction). Statistical significance was set at 5% for all comparisons. Within age, the distributions and the percentages of boys and girls relatively under( 97th percentile) were computed (Tab. 1), while comparing BMI to reference data for Italian children (Cacciari et al., 2002).