title: Canadian Pediatric Weight Management Registry (CANPWR): baseline descriptive statistics and comparison to Canadian norms.
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.
authors.affiliation: Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute and Department of Pediatrics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.|CHEO Research Institute, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, K1H 8L1 Canada.
authors.forename: Mark S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Tremblay
authors.affiliation: Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
authors.forename: Min
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.affiliation: Health Analysis Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
authors.forename: Didier
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Garriguet
authors.affiliation: Stollery Children's Hospital, Alberta Health Services and Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
authors.forename: Geoff D C
authors.initials: GDC
authors.lastname: Ball
authors.affiliation: Centre for Healthy Active Living, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada.
authors.forename: Annick
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Buchholz
authors.affiliation: British Columbia Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
authors.forename: Jean-Pierre
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Chanoine
authors.affiliation: CHU Sainte Justine's Children's Hospital, Montreal, Canada.
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lambert
authors.affiliation: McMaster Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, and Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
authors.forename: Katherine M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Morrison
keywords: Child; Health; Obesity; Overweight; Risk factor; Youth