The aims of the study are to analyse Swedish trends in overweight and obesity–as measured by body mass index (BMI)–between 1971 and 1995, and to examine socioeconomic and geographic differences between groups of individuals on the basis of information on 18-y-old military conscripts. The stu...
The Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in Under One-Year-Old Infants in Yazd, IranJafari, FatemehNadjarzadeh, AzadehMozaffari-Khosravi, HassanMohsenpour, Mohammad AliJournal of Nutrition & Food Security
(19.6% and 39.0%) were more common.The individuals suffered from at least one metabolic abnormality were 40.3%,65.6% and 90.6% in these three groups.About 62.9% of obese individuals suffered from at least two metabolic abnormalities and 23.9% suffered from at least three metabolic abnormalities....
Methods: A nationally representative sample of 11-15 year old students from 20 Italian Regions (Italian Health Behaviour in School-aged Children 2010-HBSC) was randomly selected (2,504 schools and 77,113 students). Self-reported anonymous questionnaires, prepared by the international HBSC network, ...
aA 15 year old girl holds hands with her 1 year old son. People call her a "slut", no one knows she was raped at age 14. People call another guy "fat", no one knows he has a serious disease causing him to be overweight. People call an old man "ugly", no one knows he experi...
We investigated the development of 4–6 year old children who were thin, healthy-weight, overweight, or obese (as defined by BMI z-scores) across the five domains of the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC): Physical Health and Wellbeing, Social Competence, Emotional Maturity, Language ...
(overweight vs. non-overweight children; Table2). Since reference data are not available for one-year-old children, only the time window between age two and eight could be considered for this analysis. While high exposure to parabens did not affect the risk for macrosomia at birth, there ...
The data reported here document that nearly one quarter of children entering school in Chicago are already overweight. This clearly establishes a need for local schools to develop protocols and procedures to support the physical and mental health needs of affected and at-risk children. The findings...
Of the 12 covariates included, 6 were temporally dynamic and were reformatted as a synoptic mean over each estimation period or as a mid-period year estimate. These included average daily mean rainfall (precipitation), educational attainment in women of reproductive age (15–49 years old), ...
For this purpose, data of 2,159 12-year-old children who participated in the Prevention and Incidence of Asthma and Mite Allergy (PIAMA) birth cohort study were used. Two indicators of school performance were parental reported when children were 12 years of age and included (i): the score ...