Adolescent Obesity
Quality of Early Maternal–Child Relationship and Risk of Adolescent Obesity
... of adolescent obesity associated with in- secure attachment and low maternal ...maternal obesity was limited because it was assessed when youth were adolescents rather than in early childhood, and ...
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Management of Child and Adolescent Obesity: Study Design and Practitioner Characteristics
... The questionnaire for the needs assessment was developed by a working group of the MCHB Expert Committee, NCEMCH, ILSI, and Harris Interactive, Inc. A questionnaire was developed consisting of 35 questions divided into 3 ...
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Psychosocial Determinants of Childhood and Adolescent Obesity
... and adolescent obesity is critical to improving and sustaining the health of the United ...role obesity has played in contributing to increased morbidity and mortality throughout the world has been ...
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Sleep restriction and its association with adolescent obesity: a review
... because adolescent obesity is highly persistent ,the effects of SR could have life-long consequences, even if short sleep is limited to the high school ...to obesity by night time eating habits due ...
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Sleep Duration and Adolescent Obesity
... of the BMI distribution. Our study also has limitations. Sleep duration was self-reported, and we were not able to measure sleep quality. Our partic- ipants self-reported their height and weight, and replication of our fi ...
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Novel and emerging approaches to combat adolescent obesity
... and obesity continue to be health concerns facing today’s adolescent ...with obesity, today’s obese adolescents also face many psychological issues such as high rates of depression, anxiety, and ...
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Adolescent Obesity Increases Significantly in Second and Third Generation.pdf
... Chinese, Cuban, Puerto Rican, adolescents residing together, siblings ships could not be examined in detail. The large representa- of various levels of relationship (twins, full siblings, half-siblings, tive sample of ...
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Adolescent Obesity and Overweight Prevalence amongst Urban Population of Pakistan
... and adolescent obesity has appeared as a grave health apprehension of community in 21 st ...Global adolescent obesity has markedly increased in developed and developing countries as warned by ...
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Maternal Gestational Diabetes, Birth Weight, and Adolescent Obesity
... of adolescent overweight, but much of this associa- tion was explained by the confounding influence of maternal BMI, perhaps owing to a combination of pre- and postnatal environmental factors as well as genetic ...
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Genome Scan for Childhood and Adolescent Obesity in German Families
... of obesity is evident, the reliance on single sibling pairs entails the disadvantage that a hypothetical major gene op- erative in a limited number of families cannot lead to a high LOD score in a small ...
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Management of Child and Adolescent Obesity: Psychological, Emotional, and Behavioral Assessment
... tify overweight patients who are not concerned about weight and are not ready to make changes, they may need to motivate these families for change. Age of the child, degree of overweight, and motiva- tion of the family ...
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A Prospective Study of the Role of Depression in the Development and Persistence of Adolescent Obesity
... Although we were able to control for parental obesity in this study, parental BMI was not available in Add Health. In fact, Add Health posed a number of limitations for studying the relationship between ...
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Management of Child and Adolescent Obesity: Summary and Recommendations Based on Reports From Pediatricians, Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, and Registered Dietitians
... childhood obesity to recommend the medical, emotional, and behavioral evaluations that should precede efforts to control weight, and appro- priate intervention approaches shown to be success- ful in comprehensive ...
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Adolescent obesity, joint pain, and hypermobility
... secondary obesity, developmental delay, significant psychological or psychi- atric disorder, diabetes, any chronic disease or medication interfering with bone health or weight loss, inability of parents to ...
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Association between obesity and anxiety among an adolescent population of Rajkot district, Gujarat, India: a cross sectional and descriptive study
... Conclusions: The prevalence rate of overweight and obesity were 9.7% and 4.3%. Girls are more affected with overweight. Significant number of adolescents was suffering from anxiety (9.9%) and depression (18.5%). ...
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Promoting an obesity education program among minority patients in a single urban pediatric Emergency Department (ED)
... and adolescent obesity is important for at least two reasons: First, such a study is consistent with the national health initiative, Healthy People ...weight. Obesity has been identified as one of ...
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The Warped One: Nationalist Adaptations of the Cuchulain Myth
... and obesity affects nearly one-third of adolescents in the United States (Ogden, Carroll, Kit, & Flegal, ...as adolescent obesity has been shown to be predictive of serious health conditions, ...
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Accuracy of Teen and Parental Reports of Obesity and Body Mass Index
... ent obesity is positively associated with parental re- port of teen ...parental obesity is related to increased accuracy with respect to report- ing adolescent obesity is ...teen ...
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Assessing the effectiveness of an obesity prevention intervention to improve healthy lifestyle among Saudi school girls aged 9 to 16 : a feasibility study
... such, obesity or becoming overweight will occur over time if one takes in more calories than they can use (Rendo et ...for obesity in school aged children (Al-Ghamdi, ...of obesity (Chan, ...and ...
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Intergenerational Transmission of Parent Encouragement to Diet From Adolescence Into Adulthood
... or obesity, dieting, binge eating, engaging in unhealthy weight control behaviors, and lower body satisfaction 15 years later as a parent, after adjusting for sociodemographics and baseline measures of the ...
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