Obesity and Health Risks in Children and TeensClinical Nutrition Insight
The percentile compares your child's BMI with the BMIs of children his or her age.The risks of obesity include:Low self-esteem, being bullied, depression, or eating disorders Diabetes Heart disease, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol Asthma and sleep apnea (episodes in which your child...
has strengthened their original findings that we could in fact be more at risk of health problems if we are lean as children and become obese as adults. Unexpectedly the work suggests that there could even be a slight protective effect if we are overweight as children...
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of childhood and adolescent obesity in Cyprus and define possible associated risk factors. STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional study of a representative sample of children 6–17 y of age performed during October 1999 to
The prevalence of childhood obesity has increased dramatically in the last two decades and numerous efforts to understand, intervene on, and prevent this significant threat to children's health are underway for many segments of the pediatric population.
根据第一段TheAmericanAcademyofPediatrics(AAP)madewavesthisyearbyrecommendingthatdoctorsputobesekidsasyoungastwoyearsoldonintensive,family-orientedlifestyleandbehaviorplans.Italsosuggestedprescribingweight-lossdrugstochildren12andolderandsurgerytoteens13andolder.Thisadvicereflectstheorganization'sadoptionofamoreactive...
Cardiometabolic risks and severity of obesity in children and young adults. N Engl J Med. 2015;373(14):1307-1317.PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 33. Modi AC, Loux TJ, Bell SK, Harmon CM, Inge TH, Zeller MH. Weight-specific health-related quality of life in adolescents with extreme obesity...
Other health risks: Obesity is related to a clinical spectrum of liver abnormalities such as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), the most important cause of liver disease in children. NAFLD is closely associated with metabolic syndrome including central obesity, insulin resistance, type 2 dia...
Childhood obesity is one of the most serious global public-health challenges of the twenty-first century. Over the past four decades, the number of children and adolescents with obesity has risen more than tenfold. Worldwide, an increasing number of yout