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Obesity is the condition in which excess fat has accumulated in the body (mostly in subcutaneous tissues). clinical obesity is considered to be present when a person has a BMI of over 30 (Oxford Dic...
Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome
Pediatrics is the general medicine of childhood. Because of the developmental processes (psychological and physical) of childhood, the involvement of parents, and the social management of conditions...
Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis NASH
Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis or NASH is a common, often “silent” liver disease. It resembles alcoholic liver disease, but occurs in people who drink little or no alcohol. The major featu...
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Tackling Childhood Obesity Through Clinic-Based Community Program
Could a clinic-based intervention that assists in dealing with childhood obesity be scaled down into an easily-taught, community-based program? Yes, according to a new feasibility study conducted by r...
Targeting childhood obesity early
With childhood obesity now affecting 17 percent of American children, the nation is rallying around the concept that serious action is required. In 2010, President Barack Obama established the first T...
A new study has revealed promising targets for the development of new drugs against childhood obesity. Researchers have identified four genes newly associated with childhood obesity and an increased b...
Early Intervention Reduces Obesity Risk in Children
A home-based intervention for new mothers and infants in Australia lowered obesity risks at age 2 years. Medscape Medical News
Risk Of Childhood Obesity Predicted At Birth By Simple Formula
A new formula has been discovered to serve as a tool to predict childhood obesity in newborns, using simply obtained information, according to a study in the journal PLoS ONE The research team, from I...
Inactive, Fat Rats Used In Lab To Understand Childhood Obesity
Childhood obesity has nearly tripled in the past three decades, and by 2009, 17 percent of those 2-19 years of age were classified as obese. If actions against childhood obesity do not take place it i...
Childhood Obesity May Be Reversing Its Course
It's the best health news in a decade concerning children and obesity. Officials say childhood obesity rates are declining in several cities across the U.S., a sign that the overall obesity epidemi...
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The genetics of childhood obesity and interaction with dietary macronutrients.
The genes contributing to childhood obesity are categorized into three different types based on distinct genetic and phenotypic characteristics. These types of childhood obesity are represented by rar...
Objective:To explore the relationship between severity of obesity at age 7 and age 15, age at onset of obesity, and parental body mass index (BMI) in obese children and adolescents.Design:Longitudinal...
OBJECTIVE: Results of the WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative indicated that on average one out of four primary-school children is overweight or obese. Portugal presented one of the...
BACKGROUND: Community-based interventions are needed to reduce the burden of childhood obesity. PURPOSE: To evaluate...
Introduction to Genetics and Childhood Obesity: Relevance to Nursing Practice.
Purpose: The aims for this article are to provide an overview of the current state of research on genetic contributions to the development of childhood obesity and to suggest genetic-focused nursing p...
