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Predicting obesity in young adulthood from childhood and parental obesity
R Obert C. W Hitaker,J Effrey,A. W Right,M Argaret,S. P Epe,K Risty D. S Eidel,W Illiam H. D Ietz +6 more
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A study of insulin resistance by HOMA-IR and its cut-off value to identify metabolic syndrome in urban Indian adolescents.
TL;DR: In Indian adolescents, HOMA-IR increased with sexual maturity and with progression from normal to obese, and provided the maximum sensitivity and specificity in diagnosing MS in both genders as per ATP III and IDF criteria.
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Effectiveness of preventive school-based obesity interventions in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
Roosmarijn Verstraeten,Dominique Roberfroid,Carl Lachat,Jef L. Leroy,Michelle Holdsworth,Lea Maes,Patrick Kolsteren +6 more
TL;DR: School-based interventions have the potential to improve dietary and physical activity behavior and to prevent unhealthy body weights in low- and middle-income countries and should conduct process evaluations to document program implementation.
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American Heart Association Childhood Obesity Research Summit Report
TL;DR: This paper discusses current healthcare practices in Childhood Obesity Prevention and Treatment, and the challenges faced by researchers and policy-makers grappling with this complex, Multifactorial problem.
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Physical activity in child-care centers: do teachers hold the key to the playground?
Kristen A. Copeland,Cassandra A. Kendeigh,Brian E. Saelens,Heidi J. Kalkwarf,Heidi J. Kalkwarf,Susan N. Sherman +5 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that children could have very different gross motor experiences even within the same facility (with presumably the same environment and policies), based on the beliefs, creativity and level of engagement of their teacher.
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Food prices, access to food outlets and child weight.
Lisa M. Powell,Yanjun Bao +1 more
TL;DR: The associations of fruit and vegetable and fast food prices with BMI were significantly stronger both economically and statistically among low- versus high-socioeconomic status children and among children with less educated mothers.
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Increasing Prevalence of Overweight Among US Adults: The National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, 1960 to 1991
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Long-term morbidity and mortality of overweight adolescents. A follow-up of the Harvard Growth Study of 1922 to 1935.
TL;DR: Overweight in adolescence predicted a broad range of adverse health effects that were independent of adult weight after 55 years of follow-up and was a more powerful predictor of these risks than overweight in adulthood.
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Body weight and mortality among women
JoAnn E. Manson,Walter C. Willett,Meir J. Stampfer,Graham A. Colditz,David J. Hunter,Susan E. Hankinson,Charles H. Hennekens,Frank E. Speizer +7 more
TL;DR: A J-shaped relation between body-mass index and overall mortality is observed and when women who had never smoked were examined separately, no increase in risk was observed among the leaner women, and a more direct relation between weight and mortality emerged.
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Do Obese Children Become Obese Adults? A Review of the Literature
TL;DR: 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.