Canadian Pediatric Weight Management Registry (CANPWR): baseline descriptive statistics and comparison to Canadian norms

Mark S Tremblay; Min Feng; Didier Garriguet; Geoff D C Ball; Annick Buchholz; Jean-Pierre Chanoine; Marie Lambert; Katherine M Morrison

doi:10.1186/s40608-015-0060-6

Canadian Pediatric Weight Management Registry (CANPWR): baseline descriptive statistics and comparison to Canadian norms

BMC Obes. 2015 Aug 13:2:29. doi: 10.1186/s40608-015-0060-6. eCollection 2015.

Authors

Mark S Tremblay^{1

2}, Min Feng^#³, Didier Garriguet^#⁴, Geoff D C Ball^#⁵, Annick Buchholz^#⁶, Jean-Pierre Chanoine^#⁷, Marie Lambert^#⁸, Katherine M Morrison⁹

Affiliations

¹ Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute and Department of Pediatrics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
² CHEO Research Institute, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, K1H 8L1 Canada.
³ Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
⁴ Health Analysis Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
⁵ Stollery Children's Hospital, Alberta Health Services and Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
⁶ Centre for Healthy Active Living, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada.
⁷ British Columbia Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
⁸ CHU Sainte Justine's Children's Hospital, Montreal, Canada.
⁹ McMaster Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, and Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Background: A pilot study was conducted to assess the feasibility of establishing a multi-site CANadian Pediatric Weight management Registry (CANPWR) containing individual, family and weight management program information.

Methods: Standardized baseline data were collected to characterize CANPWR participants (n = 310) in comparison to a sample of age-matched Canadian children measured in the nationally representative Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS; n = 3,788). This study compared demographic, anthropometric, cardiometabolic and lifestyle characteristics of participants (aged 6-17 years) in the CANPWR pilot study with those from the CHMS.

Results: Compared to CHMS respondents, CANPWR participants had higher BMI z-score, waist circumference, blood pressure, total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, triglycerides and fasting glucose, and lower HDL cholesterol. They reported lower sugared drink consumption, were more likely to be non-white and had parents with lower education.

Conclusions: The CANPWR cohort represents a group that has biological and behavioral profiles that place them at increased health risk and who differ significantly from typical Canadians of the same age.

Keywords: Child; Health; Obesity; Overweight; Risk factor; Youth.