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Nutrition and Dietetics
Obes Facts (2024) 17 (2): 109–120.
Published Online: 15 November 2023
...Nicole Holliday; Anna Leibinger; Oliver Huizinga; Carmen Klinger; Elochukwu C. Okanmelu; Karin Geffert; Eva A. Rehfuess; Peter von Philipsborn Introduction: Exposure to marketing for foods high in sugar, salt, and fat is considered a key risk factor for childhood obesity. To support efforts...
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Obes Facts (2022) 15 (4): 560–569.
Published Online: 31 March 2022
... factors associated with childhood obesity. Methods: From the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 1999 to 2018, 35,907 children aged 2–19 with body mass index (BMI) data were included. Obesity and severe obesity were defined as BMI ≥95th percentile and ≥120% of 95th percentile of US...
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Obes Facts (2022) 15 (3): 366–372.
Published Online: 10 February 2022
...Peiying Huang; Xiulin Shi; Fangsen Xiao; Liying Wang; Wei Liu; Jinyang Zeng; Mingzhu Lin; Xuejun Li Introduction: Childhood obesity is an important public health problem, which may lead to increased risk of obesity in adulthood. The relationship between the incidence of obesity and the mode...
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Obes Facts (2021) 14 (6): 658–674.
Published Online: 05 November 2021
... was to measure parental perceptions of their child’s weight status and to identify predictors of potential parental misperceptions. Methods: We used data from the World Health Organization (WHO) European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative and 22 countries. Parents were asked to identify their perceptions...
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Obes Facts (2021) 14 (2): 169–177.
Published Online: 01 April 2021
... to in the content or advertisements. Blood pressure Childhood obesity Intraocular pressure Overweight Refractive error Myopia It is well established that a high body mass index (BMI) has become a serious problem affecting about 30% of school-aged children and adolescents [ 1-3 ]. The most...
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Obes Facts (2020) 13 (6): 548–559.
Published Online: 13 November 2020
.... Childhood obesity Quality of life Physical activity Eccentric training Concentric training The worldwide prevalence of obesity is alarming, with approximately 80% of adolescents with obesity likely to remain obese during adulthood [ 1 ]. Pediatric obesity results in metabolic complications...
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Obes Facts (2019) 12 (6): 669–677.
Published Online: 16 December 2019
...Mahmood Karimy; Bahram Armoon; Neda Fayazi; Hamid Reza Koohestani Objectives: In the recent decades, a dramatic increase in childhood obesity is one of the main public health problems. The aim of the study was to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP) of Iranian mothers towards...
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Obes Facts (2019) 12 (2): 226–243.
Published Online: 26 April 2019
...; Valentina Peterkova; Andrea Gualtieri; Iveta Pudule; Aušra Petrauskienė; Maya Tanrygulyyeva; Rakhmatulloev Sherali; Constanta Huidumac-Petrescu; Julianne Williams; Wolfgang Ahrens; João Breda Background: In Europe, although the prevalence of childhood obesity seems to be plateauing in some countries...
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Obes Facts (2018) 11 (3): 263–276.
Published Online: 04 July 2018
.... Methods: A literature search was performed in Medline via PubMed, and appropriate studies were analyzed. Results: Programs to prevent childhood obesity have so far remained mainly school-based and effects have been limited. Analyses by age group show that prevention programs have the best results...
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Obes Facts (2018) 11 (3): 257–262.
Published Online: 30 June 2018
...Carl-Erik Flodmark The impact of childhood obesity on the Swedish Health Care system is described. Childhood Obesity and Diabetes Type 2 is increasing for the last 10 years, but not Diabetes Type 1. Thus, prevention is needed. How to define prevention of obesity? Could treatment of childhood...
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Obes Facts (2018) 10 (6): 584–596.
Published Online: 06 December 2017
...Helmut Schröder; Rowaedh Ahmed Bawaked; Lourdes Ribas-Barba; Maria Izquierdo-Pulido; Blanca Roman-Viñas; Montserrat Fíto; Lluis Serra-Majem Objective: Little is known about the cumulative effect of obesogenic behaviours on childhood obesity risk. We determined the cumulative effect on BMI z-score...
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Obes Facts (2017) 10 (4): 353–362.
Published Online: 09 August 2017
...Orsolya Ács; Bálint Péterfia; Péter Hollósi; Andrea Luczay; Dóra Török; András Szabó Objective: Worldwide increasing childhood obesity is due to interactions between environmental and genetic factors, linked together by epigenetic mechanisms such as DNA methylation. Methods: 82 obese children...