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Do Obese Children Become Obese Adults? A Review of the Literature
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Although the correlations between anthropometric measures of obesity in childhood and those in adulthood varied considerably among studies, the associations were consistently positive and the risk of adult obesity was at least twice as high for obese children as for nonobese children.About:
This article is published in Preventive Medicine.The article was published on 1993-03-01. It has received 1952 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Population & Obesity.read more
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Prevalence and trends in overweight among us children and adolescents, 1999-2000
TL;DR: The prevalence of overweight among children in the United States is continuing to increase, especially among Mexican-American and non-Hispanic black adolescents.
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Predicting Obesity in Young Adulthood from Childhood and Parental Obesity
TL;DR: Obese children under three years of age without obese parents are at low risk for obesity in adulthood, but among older children, obesity is an increasingly important predictor of adult obesity, regardless of whether the parents are obese.
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Prevalence of high body mass index in US children and adolescents, 2007-2008.
TL;DR: No statistically significant linear trends in high weight for recumbent length or high BMI were found over the time periods 1999-2000, 2001-2002, 2003-2004, 2005-2006, and 2007-2008 among girls and boys except among the very heaviest 6- through 19-year-old boys.
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Worldwide trends in childhood overweight and obesity
Youfa Wang,Tim Lobstein +1 more
TL;DR: There is a growing global childhood obesity epidemic, with a large variation in secular trends across countries, and effective programs and policies are needed at global, regional and national levels to limit the problem among children.
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Tracking of childhood overweight into adulthood: a systematic review of the literature
Amika S. Singh,Christiaan Mulder,Jos W. R. Twisk,Jos W. R. Twisk,W. van Mechelen,Mai J. M. Chinapaw +5 more
TL;DR: All included studies consistently report an increased risk of overweight and obese youth becoming overweight adults, suggesting that the likelihood of persistence of overweight into adulthood is moderate for overweight and obesity youth, however, predictive values varied considerably.