Having a high BMI percentile increases a child's risk for various health conditions, including high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, asthma, Type 2 Diabetes and sleep apnea. Children with a high BMI are also at risk for developing low self-esteem, behavioral problems and depression. Paying...
A child's BMI looks at the relationship between weight and height for children aged 6 months to 18 years old. It assesses whether current weight is above, below or within range for their age, and can help to identify malnutrition or obesity. Normally, the pediatrician will use the BMI and...
BMI is probably a surrogate measure for circulating leptin levels. Normal adolescent girls and boys age 11-18 years (n=555) with relatively higher BMIs show significantly greater trunk width growth, but only boys show this phenomenon also in limb lengths. Objectives: To evaluate normal juvenile ...
ADHD medication, dietary patterns, physical activity, and BMI in children: a longitudinal analysis of the ECLS-K study Obesity, 25 (2017), pp. 1802-1808 Google Scholar [38] G.C. O'Malley, S.P. Shultz, D. Thivel, M.D. Tsiros Neuromusculoskeletal health in pediatric obesity: incorporatin...
In children aged 6 to 11 years, increased waist circumference is associated with elevated BP even when BMI is normal. 展开 关键词: Child Pediatric Obesity Waist Circumference Hypertension Overweight Public Health DOI: 10.5935/abc.20170162 年份: 2017 ...
High prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency and its association with BMI-for-age among primary school children in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia p pBackground/p pDeficiencies of micronutrients can affect the growth and development of children. There is increasing evidence of vitamin D deficiency wor... GL...
Table 32 Normal values for the fractal dimension (FD) (unitless) of left ventricular trabeculation in the adult stratified by sex and body mass index (BMI) according to reference [62] Full size table Normal values by this approach for global LV and maximal apical fractal dimension are presente...
BMI: Body mass index FA: Footprint angle CSI: Chippaux–Smirak index AI: Arch index References Ara I, Moreno LA, Leiva MT, Gutin B, Casajus JA (2007) Adiposity, physical activity, and physical fitness among children from Aragon, Spain. Obesity (Silver Spring) 15(8):1918–1924 ...
However, the association of high normal body mass index (BMI) with obesity and the interaction with different weight trajectories are not well understood. Objective To examine the hypertension risk associated with high normal BMI for age and different weight trajectories in youths. Design, Setting, ...
Child BMI Z-score was calculated from height and weight measured at 5 y. Using linear regression, controlling for sociodemographics and family lifestyle, we examined prepregnancy BMI-specific associations between GWG and child BMI Z-score. There was a nonlinear association among normal (P < ...