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In the developed world obesity is now the most common disease of childhood and adolescence. Paediatric obesity is not a cosmetic issue, being associated with a significant burden of ill health both for obese children and for adults who were obese as children. Health professionals tend to ...
Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in many parts of the world. This epidemic has also affected children and adults with congenital heart disease (CHD). Over one quarter of children with CHD are overweight or obese. Important comorbidities are associated with obesity including type 2 ...
To examine the prevalence of childhood and adolescent obesity in Taiwan and investigate the association between excess weight and physical fitness and blood pressure. Cross-sectional study. A total of 13 935 children and adolescents aged 6–18 years (
Nutrition/exercise/obesity Obesity/body mass index ✓>6 y ✓All adults ✓ ✓All adults and children Hypertension/blood pressure — ✓≥18 y ✓ “Covered in child well visit” Lipid disorder — ✓≥20 y and risk factors ✓In late adolescence ✓Children and adults with risk fact...
The Importance of a Life Course Approach to Health: Chronic disease risk from preconception through adolescence and adulthood WHO, Geneva (2017) Google Scholar [16] G.E. Faulkner, P.F. Gorczynski, T.A. Cohn Psychiatric illness and obesity: recognizing the “obesogenic” nature of an inpatient...
Introduction: the use of body mass index to assess obesity in children. The International Obesity Task Force (IOTF) was established in 1994 to address the increase in the worldwide prevalence of obesity. The goals of the IOTF a... W,H,Dietz,... - 《American Journal of Clinical Nutrition...
preventable cause of death in the U.S., less than 45 percent of adult and pediatric obese patients received any prior advice from a physician to lose weight. The low rate of identification and treatment of obesity by physicians can often be attributed to lack of awareness, lack of counseling...
Mucopolysaccharidosis type IV A (MPS IVA) or Morquio A syndrome is an autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disease caused by GALNS gene mutations that lead to a deficiency of the N-acetylgalactosamine-6-sulfate sulfatase enzyme and the accumulation of two glycosaminoglycans in cell lysosomes, namel...
However, the prevalence of obesity is alarmingly rising in other less developed parts of the world, like Asia, the Middle East and some parts of Africa. Overweight and obesity in childhood extend to adulthood and the majority of obese children grew as obese adults. Obesity has significant ...