Two new Internet resources aim to make it less difficult and cumbersome to do exhaustive esearch on childhood obesity. The Catalogue of Surveillance Systems (nccor. arg/css) and the Measures Registry (nccor.org/ measures) highlight data relevant to childhood obesity, such as nutritional ...
Managing childhood obesity is challenging due to its multifaceted nature (Smith et al., 2020). Several public health interventions to prevent childhood obesity have been implemented by national and local institutions (Aldojaani et al., 2019). However, the impact of those interventions on reducing ...
Childhood obesity has become a serious public health threat worldwide due to its many short- and long-term adverse health effects. We assessed the association between weight status and metabolic co-morbidities among South Korean children using nationally
Objective To evaluate the validity of multi-institutional electronic health record (EHR) data sharing for surveillance and study of childhood obesity. Methods We conducted a non-concurrent cohort study of 528,340 children with outpatient visits to six pediatric academic medical centers during 2007–08...
The Early Prevention of Obesity in CHildren (EPOCH) Collaboration was formed in 2009. The main objective of the EPOCH Collaboration is to determine if early intervention for childhood obesity impacts on body mass index (BMI) z scores at age 18-24 months. Additional research questions will focus...
childhood obesity [38,39] and fast food ads are the most prevalent food ads seen on television by children and adolescents [40]. Finally, we also found stronger price sensitivity among children who were already overweight (BMI greater than or equal to 85th percentile of the CDC growth chart...
In spite of increasing concerns related to childhood obesity, when looking at an epidemiologic data map, we still found many regions or countries lacking high- quality data [10]. This is also the case in Romania, where regional reports were published only recently on this issue [11-14]. ...
From: Fast food consumption and its associations with obesity and hypertension among children: results from the baseline data of the Childhood Obesity Study in China Mega-cities Original Submission 15 May 2017 Submitted Original manuscript 31 Jul 2017 Reviewed Reviewer Report - Charlotte Evans 10 Aug...
The effect of height on estimates of the change in BMI-based prevalence of childhood obesity Article 18 August 2021 Diagnosis accuracy of waist-to-height ratio to predict cardiometabolic risk in children with obesity Article 01 August 2022 References Flegal KM, Shepherd JA, Looker AC, Grau...
Time trends in fast food consumption and its association with obesity among children in China. PLoS One. 2016;11(3):e0151141. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Ji CY. Report on childhood obesity in China (1)--body mass index reference for screening overweight and obesity in ...