ALLMedicine™ Obesity In Children Center

Aug 14th, 2022 - Exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS) might be associated with obesity in children. This study aimed to evaluate whether continuous, quit, or start exposure to SHS was associated with obesity risk in early adolescents. We used population-based longit...

Aug 6th, 2022 - The aim of this study was to investigate the association between maternal prepregnancy physical activity (PA) and overweight/obesity in 3-year-old children. Using data from the Japan Environment and Children's Study (a birth cohort study), materna...

Aug 6th, 2022 - Recent studies revealed that children who are overweight have a higher risk of iron deficiency, although the etiology of this relationship remains unclear. The aim of the study was to evaluate the association between changes in obesity status betw...

Aug 1st, 2022 - In obese children, excess fat exerts an unfavorable burden on the respiratory system, particularly during exercise, potentially reducing exercise tolerance and leading to DOE (dyspnea on exertion), which could explain reports of low physical activ...

Jul 29th, 2022 - Eating unhealthy foods and not exercising regularly contributes to obesity in children. Other unhealthy behaviors, such as skipping meals can also lead to obesity. Breakfast is known to be the most important meal of the day, yet many people skip b...

Aug 24th, 2017 - Rates of obesity among adolescents in the United States have increased at a dramatic rate along with the prevalence of weight-related diseases. Between the 1980s and 2014, the prevalence of obesity among adolescent females in the United States inc...

Jun 21st, 2017 - Based on year 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention growth charts, approximately 17% of children and adolescents aged 2 to 19 years in the United States have obesity, and almost 32% of children and adolescents are overweight or have obes...

Sep 3rd, 2016 - Severe/medically complicated obesity in childhood, and particularly in adolescence, is a real disability that requires an intensive and continuous approach which should follow the procedures and schedule of rehabilitation medicine. Given the lack ...

Apr 1st, 2015 - Recommendations for growth monitoring, and prevention and management of overweight and obesity in children and youth in primary care.|2015| ,|diagnosis,prevention & control,therapy,diagnosis,prevention & control,therapy,

Sep 11th, 2013 - Severe obesity afflicts between 4% and 6% of all youth in the United States, and the prevalence is increasing. Despite the serious immediate and long-term cardiovascular, metabolic, and other health consequences of severe pediatric obesity, curren...

Aug 1st, 2022 - In obese children, excess fat exerts an unfavorable burden on the respiratory system, particularly during exercise, potentially reducing exercise tolerance and leading to DOE (dyspnea on exertion), which could explain reports of low physical activ...

Jul 29th, 2022 - Eating unhealthy foods and not exercising regularly contributes to obesity in children. Other unhealthy behaviors, such as skipping meals can also lead to obesity. Breakfast is known to be the most important meal of the day, yet many people skip b...

Jul 11th, 2022 - The primary aim of this project is to conduct an adequately powered study that compares children at low risk for obesity to children at high risk for obesity on their brain responses to food tastes during a pavlovian learning task. Seven assessmen...

Jun 21st, 2022 - According to the 2021 publication of the WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI), overweight and obesity in children and adolescents remains one of the most serious health problems facing the European population in the 21st c...

May 19th, 2022 - Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has become the most prevalent chronic liver disease worldwide, paralleling the obesity pandemic. Secondary to increasing rates of obesity in children and adolescents, the prevalence of NAFLD has more than ...

Jul 18th, 2022 - Researchers published the study covered in this summary on medRxiv.org as a preprint that has not yet been peer reviewed. Key Takeaways Children who scored high in conscientiousness had a significantly reduced risk of childhood obesity, in a meta-...

Feb 1st, 2022 - Lifestyle is more likely to affect a child’s BMI than the weight of their mother before and during pregnancy say researchers who have found that a mother’s high BMI before and during pregnancy is not a major cause of high BMI in their offspring – ...

Oct 15th, 2021 - American children gained a lot of weight in the last year, setting a dangerous trajectory towards metabolic disease that requires urgent policy change, according to a new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Jamie Bussel “Our nation’s s.

Oct 15th, 2021 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. American children gained a lot of weight in the last year, setting a dangerous trajectory towards metabolic disease that requires urgent policy ch...

Sep 29th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Sleeve gastrectomy is a safe and effective treatment for severe obesity in children as young as five years old, report researchers in Saudi Arabia. At 10 years, children and adolescents who had sleeve gastrectomy had lo...