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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">3776</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.131101</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>A Study of the Level of Obesity Among Children Aged 6-18 Years in the City of Berat&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Bendo</surname><given-names>Aida</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Mara</surname><given-names>Ferdinand</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Delia</surname><given-names>Bashkim</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>4</day><month>06</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>1)</volume><issue/><fpage>159</fpage><lpage>163</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Background: One of the greatest problems in the civilized world today is an unhealthy lifestyle, particularly for children and young ones. For this reason, physical education plays a critical role as the first important factor that can educate the new generation. The measurement of anthropometric indicators is an immediate need for the education system, a need that is related to physical education and its impact on children__ampersandsignrsquo;s health. Objective: This study aims to identify the anthropometric indicators in children and young ones of ages 6-18 years old, as the starting point of evaluating their health today, particularly concerning the future. Methods: Children aged 6-18 years old, in total 14138 subjects, from which 6903 girls and 7235 boys were tests through four anthropometric indexes, starting from the main one in evaluating the development of body constituents and the level of obesity. The measurements had undergone the calculation of BMI indicators, comparing of the age groups and genders to observe possible differences and through the statistical evaluations. Results: The results obtained show that 1% of children aged 6-11 years are overweight. While with the increase in age this index increases by 4.5 % and 8.4 % at later ages. Also, boys over the age of 15 are at a higher percentage of fat than girls. BMI assessment shows that out of the total number of the subjects about 3.71% of them are overweight to obese versus 4.36 % of the subjects, taken in the national range. This value is lower than the respective value for the same level of education Conclusion: The curricular program of physical education 3 hours/week is convenient, enables, and helps in the reduction of obesity and overweight, for children who regularly attend classes of physical education.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd> Lifestyle</kwd><kwd> Body mass index</kwd><kwd> Overweight</kwd><kwd> Obesity</kwd><kwd> Curricular program</kwd><kwd> Anthropometric measurements</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
