To describe the trajectories of obesity/overweight rates by age group among survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) from diagnosis through several years post-therapy.Longitudinal, descriptive.Hematology/oncology clinic in the southwestern United States.62 child and adolescent ALL survivors...
Unadjusted trends in prevalence of obesity and extreme obesity appear in Figure 1 (children and adolescents aged 2-19 years) and by age group in Table 3 and in eFigures 1 and 2 in the Supplement. Among children and adolescents aged 2 to 19 years, there was a significant quadratic trend ...
Obesity rates are increasing almost everywhere in the world, although the pace and timing for this increase differ when populations from developed and developing countries are compared. The sharp and more recent increase in obesity rates in many Latin American countries is an example of that and re...
The U.S. has one of the highest obesity rates worldwide and has to face the problem of an increasing obese and overweight population that is at higher risk of diabetes, heart disease, and certain cancers. This report contains information on the prevalence of obesity in the U.S. nationally...
Multiple regression analysis is conducted to determine if the enactment of obesity legislation is associated with changes in state obesity rates among younger and older adults. Results show that state rates of obesity are not associated with the enactment of obesity legislation among either age group....
mentioned above were not changed by the subjects’ age being limited to the elderly. Previous analyses of the United States have also shown that the prevalence of obesity among adults has been lower in the higher income group13, but similar results were not obtained in this study, and the ...
Summary HRs are shown in Table 1 overall, by age group, and by whether data were measured or self-reported. The summary HRs were 0.94 (95% CI, 0.91-0.96) for overweight, 1.18 (95% CI, 1.12-1.25) for obesity (all grades), 0.95 (95% CI, 0.88-1.01) for grade 1 obesity, and 1.29...
The researchers studied obesity rates among children and young people, between five and 19 years of age. They found that rates in this group increased from 11 million in 1975 to 124 million in 2016. This was one of the biggestepidemiologicalstudies ever done. The researchers examined height and...
Assuming the same variation and proportion of differentially expressed genes to be 5%, we calculated that a sample size of n = 10 subjects per group, matched by age and ethnicity, would provide 80% power at a 5% false-discovery rate to detect the expected number of differentially ...
Endogenous sex steroids, weight change and rates of hip bone loss in older men: the MrOS study. Osteoporos Int 2006; 17: 1329–1336. Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Tothill P . Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry measurements of total-body bone mineral during weight change. J Clin ...