Figure 1.
Flow of subjects through study. Panel A shows the flow of adolescents and Panel B shows the flow of children.
Figure 2.
Daily television viewing of subjects by country presented as percent in long and prolonged categories.
Panel A shows adolescent television viewing and Panel B shows television viewing of children.
Figure 3.
BMI of subjects by country presented as percent of subjects in overweight and obese categories.
Panel A shows the BMI of adolescents and Panel B shows the BMI of children.
Figure 4.
Association between average daily television viewing hours and subject BMI by centre.
The difference in BMI (Kg/m2) between subjects with long and prolonged viewing hours and those with short and moderate viewing hours in each country by centre (positive difference represents an association of higher viewing time with higher BMI). Panel A shows the association in adolescents and Panel B shows the association in children. For each country the proportion of subjects who view television for more than three hours per day on average (long and prolonged categories combined) is shown in parentheses. Those centres with reported height and weights are shown with filled in circles, and those centres that measured heights and weights are shown with hollowed circles.
Table 1.
Estimated BMI (SE) in kg/m2 for short television viewing and the increase in BMI (SE) for each television viewing category by age and sex.
Table 2.
Relative risk (95% CI) for overweight or obese by television viewing category in both age groups, children are reported both combined and by sex, adolescents by sex only.