...Kelly G.H. van de Pas; Maartje A.P. de Krom; Bjorn Winkens; François M.H. van Dielen; Anita C.E. Vreugdenhil Introduction: Children and adolescents with overweight and obesity have an impaired health-related quality of life (HRQoL). However, it is unclear which of these children are most affected...

...-down growth during the first 2 years of life on fat-free mass index (FFMI) and fat mass index (FMI) in 3,204 5–7-year-old children were investigated using Hattori’s body composition chart. Body composition results were compared to appropriate for gestational age (AGA) birth weight with the same body...

...Olivia Sammels; Louise Karjalainen; Jovanna Dahlgren; Elisabet Wentz Introduction: Children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) appear to be at greater risk of excess weight gain. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to examine whether children with ASD have...

...Catharina Sarkkola; Jannina Viljakainen; Rejane Augusta de Oliveira Figueiredo; Antti Saari; Sohvi Lommi; Elina Engberg; Heli Viljakainen Introduction: The global epidemic of obesity concerns children, and monitoring the prevalence is of highest priority. Body mass index (BMI) with age- and sex...

... the past decades, children have been increasingly using screen devices, while at the same time their sleep duration has decreased. Both behaviors have been associated with excess weight, and it is possible they act as mutually reinforcing behaviors for weight gain. The aim of the study was to explore...

..., suitable reference data are needed; hence, we aimed to generate age-dependent and sex-specific body composition reference data in a larger population of children and adolescents in Germany. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study on a representative group of 15,392 5- to 17-year-old children...

...Natalija Smetanina; Raimondas Valickas; Astra Vitkauskiene; Kerstin Albertsson-Wikland; Rasa Verkauskienė Background: Overweight (Ow) and obesity among adults and children increases the risk of metabolic consequences. Metabolic syndrome (MS) and impaired glucose metabolism are well-known risk...

... within families, and children’s and adolescents’ lifestyle factors. Strategies for obesity prevention, which are predominantly targeted at socially disadvantaged groups, should therefore address the family environment and lifestyle factors. Statistical analyses were performed with IBM® SPSS®...

...Jacob C. Seidell; Jutka Halberstadt Background: As in many other countries around the world, the Netherlands has a high prevalence of overweight and obesity in children. About 1 in 7 of children aged 2–19 years has either overweight or obesity. Summary: In this paper the national and local...

...Jing Chen; Chaoying Hu; Guozhang Zeng; Chao Xu; Lijun Xu; Junxia Shi; Conway Niu; Liangwen Zhang Background: Childhood overweight and obesity have become some of the most serious public health problems in the 21st century and have a significant impact on affected children as they grow...

... these parameters in a cohort of healthy children and adolescents in Leipzig. Our study provides current percentile curves for biceps, triceps, subscapular and iliac crest ST, plus WC, HC, waist-to-hip ratio and waist-to-height ratio. Methods: 6,344 visits were recorded involving 2,363 individuals from 3 to 16...

...Viktoria Anna Kovacs; Marta Bakacs; Csilla Kaposvari; Eva Illes; Gergo Erdei; Eva Martos; Joao Breda Aims: To describe the prevalence of thinness, overweight, and obesity in Hungarian children (age 7.0-7.9 years) according to different classifications, to assess the progress between 2010 and 2016...

... the recent evidence in children and adults. Methods: Data were retrieved from the databases MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane library for the period January 2013 to October 2015. A systematic review of prospective cohort studies and randomized controlled trials (RCTs) relating SSBs to weight measures...

... of children and adolescents who start lifestyle intervention (LI) for obesity in Germany changed over the last decade. Methods: 65,453 subjects (<21 years) from the APV database (Adiposity Patients Registry) with a BMI ≥ 90th percentile were included (years 2005-2015). Logistic regression models...

...Qi-Ying Song; Jie-Yun Song; Yang Wang; Shuo Wang; Yi-De Yang; Xiang-Rui Meng; Jun Ma; Hai-Jun Wang; Yan Wang Objective: This study aimed to examine associations of three single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with obesity-related phenotypes in Chinese children. These SNPs were identified...

... representative data on obesity in Romanian children are needed to shape public health policies. To provide a unified data landscape on national prevalence, trends and other factors associated with underweight, overweight, and obesity in Romanian children aged 6-19 years, across the last decade (2006-2015...

.... The purpose of the present systematic review was to report the evidence regarding muscular fitness in children and adolescents with obesity. A systematic article search was conducted between November 2014 and June 2015 using MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL psycINFO, SPORTDiscus and SocINDEX. Articles published...

...Barbara Bohn; Manfred James Müller; Gunter Simic-Schleicher; Wieland Kiess; Wolfgang Siegfried; Monika Oelert; Sabine Tuschy; Stefan Berghem; Reinhard W. Holl Background: Body fat (BF) percentiles for German children and adolescents have recently been published. This study aims to evaluate...

... of hunger in children who are obese and to propose a method of assessing these behaviours in practice. Methods: Clinical researchers from the European Childhood Obesity Group (ECOG) adopted an evidence-based approach to examine the literature concerning the assessment of eating behaviour in children who...

... Woll Increasing physical activity and reduction of sedentary behaviour play important roles in health promotion and prevention of lifestyle-related diseases in children and adolescents. However, the question of how much physical activity is useful for which target group is still a matter of debate...