ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Body mass index of Russian schoolchildren in the second decade of the XXI century

About authors

1 Institute of Developmental Physiology of the Russian Academy of Education, Moscow, Russia

2 Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia

3 Institute of Demographic Research — Branch of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IDR FCTAS RAS), Moscow, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Natalia A. Skoblina
ul. Ostrovityanova, 1, Moscow, 117997, Russia; ur.liam@mod_anilboks

About paper

Author contribution: Levushkin SP, Zhukov OF, Skoblina NA — trial concept and design; Skoblina EV — data collection and processing; Zhukov OF, Skoblina EV — text writing; Levushkin SP, Skoblina NA — editing.

Compliance with ethical standards: the study has been approved by the Local Ethics Committee of Pirogov Russian National Research University (protocol No. 159 as of November 21, 2016) and conducted as a part of research work (state recording number of research and technological development АААА-А19-119021890068-7 as of February 18, 2019), it does not endanger the participants, complied with the requirements of biomedical ethics, and voluntary informed consent has been obtained for each participant.

Received: 2022-01-17 Accepted: 2022-02-24 Published online: 2022-03-30
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Fig. 1. BMI of 11-year-old schoolchildren from federal constituent entities of the Russian Federation, kg/m2
Fig. 2. BMI of 15-year-old schoolchildren from federal constituent entities of the Russian Federation, kg/m2
Table. Normative BMI values for 7- and 17-year-old schoolchildren as compared with 2004 and 2021, 25–75 centiles, kg/m2
Note: 1 — normative values of 2004; 2 — normative values of 2021