We used UK 1990 gender-specific growth reference charts and the LMS Growth programme to identify age and gender-specific overweight and obesity BMI thresholds for each child at ages 5, 7 and 11 years. Children with intellectual disabilities were significantly more likely than other children to be...
Association between children living with obesity and Mental Health problems: a data analysis of the Welsh Health Survey, UKdoi:10.1186/s12889-023-15293-8ObesityEpidemiologyPublic HealthPediatricsAdolescentObesity and mental health problems in children are both significant and growing public health issues....
The cuts correspond to 4575 more children with obesity or 9174 more overweight/obese children between 2010/11 and 2017/18 than would have been expected had funding levels for the centres remained the same, estimate the researchers. With deprived areas hardest hit by these cuts, the effect is l...
3 Risk factors associated with obesity in younger children include maternal diabetes, maternal smoking, gestational weight gain, and rapid infant growth. A decrease in physical activity in young children is a risk factor for obesity later in adolescence. Obesity rates continue to increase in some ...
Childhood obesity is a major public health concern with serious implications for the sustainability of healthcare systems. Studies in the US and UK have shown that ethnicity is consistently associated with childhood obesity, with Black African origin girls in particular being more vulnerable to overweig...
Overweight and obesity in 3- and 5-year-old children with and without developmental delay. To determine rates of obesity in nationally representative samples of 3- and 5-year-old children with and without developmental delay in the UK. Longitudin... E Emerson - 《Public Health》 被引量: 13...
作者: National Clinical Guideline Centre (UK) 摘要: Excerpt NICE issued guidance on the prevention, identification, assessment and management of overweight and obesity in adults and children in 2006 (CG43). This was a joint clinical and public health guideline developed by the National ...
(OR 1.80, 95% CI 1.25-2.59) with maternal obesity. This study provides substantial evidence for the need to develop interventions that commence prior to conception, to support women of childbearing age with weight management, in order to combat intergenerational obesity. According to the authors, ...
The prevalence of childhood obesity in Hong Kong and China has been rapidly increasing for a decade. The Medline database lists 100,000 articles on obesity, with hundreds of confirmed and putative "causes" and hypothesized (though rarely proven) preventive strategies. Contemporary scholars have ...
A socioeconomic gradient in childhood obesity is known to be present by the age of school entry in the UK. The origin of this gradient is unclear at presen... LA Kelly,JJ Reilly,A Fisher,... - 《Archives of Disease in Childhood》 被引量: 238发表: 2006年 Factors associated with overwe...