Erratum to: prevalence and socioeconomic correlates of overweight and obesity among Pakistani primary school children

Since the publication of our article [1], we have noticed some errors in the final published version, for which the corresponding author accepts full responsibility. Page references are to the final PDF version.

Page 3: Results, second paragraph

Lines 1-2: "BMI… 20.7 (5.02) kg/m²…" should read "BMI… 16.0 (3.0) kg/m²…”

Lines 6-8: “According to the IOTF cut-offs, overweight and obesity prevalence was 33 % (95 % CI 31.1-35.3) and 24 % (95 % CI 22.4-26.2) respectively” should read “According to the IOTF cut-offs, overweight and obesity prevalence was 8.3 % (95 % CI 7.1-9.6) and 4.7 % (95 % CI 3.8-5.7) respectively”

Page 4: Table 1

The values for mean and standard deviation (SD) for BMI (kg/m²) are revised.

Page 4: Table 2

The values for mean BMI (SD) and overweight and obesity prevalence according to the IOTF cut-offs are revised.

Page 5: Figure 1

Grade- and gender- specific mean BMI among primary school children in Lahore, Pakistan (n = 1860).

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The values for grade- and gender- specific mean BMI are revised.

Page 6: Second paragraph

Lines 1-8: “Prevalence of overweight by the IOTF cut-offs was twice the prevalence by the WHO 2007 reference (33 % versus 17 %) and prevalence of obesity by the IOTF cutoffs was three times higher than that calculated by the WHO 2007 reference (24 % versus 7.5 %). Using IOTF cut-offs for overweight and obesity in Pakistani schoolaged children would result in higher estimates than the WHO 2007 reference.” should read “Prevalence of overweight by the IOTF cut-offs was half the prevalence by the WHO 2007 reference (8 % versus 17 %) and prevalence of obesity by the IOTF cutoffs was two-third of that calculated by the WHO 2007 reference (5 % versus 7.5 %). Using IOTF cut-offs for overweight and obesity in Pakistani schoolaged children would result in lower estimates than the WHO 2007 reference. A relatively lower overweight and obesity prevalence with use of the IOTF cut-offs as compared to the WHO reference had been reported elsewhere [2, 3].”

In present study, the estimates for overweight included obese children.

Affiliations

1. Ubeera Memorial Research Society, Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore, Punjab, 54000, Pakistan

   • Muhammad Umair Mushtaq
   • , Hussain Muhammad Abdullah
   • , Ubeera Shahid
   •  & Javed Akram

2. District Health Office Nankana Sahib, Punjab Department of Health, Nankana Sahib, Punjab, 39100, Pakistan

   • Muhammad Umair Mushtaq
   •  & Mushtaq Ahmad Shad

3. King Edward Medical University, Lahore, Punjab, 54000, Pakistan

   • Sibgha Gull

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Muhammad Umair Mushtaq.

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Authors' contributions

All authors contributed significantly in all phases of the study in accordance with uniform requirements established by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

The online version of the original article can be found at 10.1186/1471-2458-11-724

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