TY - JOUR T1 - Erratum re: prevalence of overweight and obesity in East and West German children in the decade after reunification: population-based series of cross-sectional studies JF - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health JO - J Epidemiol Community Health SP - 86 LP - 86 DO - 10.1136/jech.2009.107557 VL - 65 IS - 1 AU - C J Apfelbacher AU - U Krämer Y1 - 2011/01/01 UR - http://jech.bmj.com/content/65/1/86.abstract N2 - We have published prevalence estimates for overweight and obesity in German children for the decade following German reunification in this journal,1 using internationally based cut-offs as proposed by Cole et al.2 The studies from which the data were drawn had ethical approval from the medical associations in Bavaria and Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. We split the childrens' age into half-year age bands, ie, 5.0–<5.5, 5.5–<6.0 … 7.5–<8.0 years.Our paper was recently criticised in the German Bundesgesundheitsblatt.3 The authors rightly state that we have used the cut-offs published for the respective lower boundaries of our age bands (eg, … ER -