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Association between birth weight and risk of abdominal obesity in children and adolescents: a school-based epidemiology survey in China

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Abdominal obesity is becoming an increasingly serious public health challenge in children and adolescents, there remains controversial opinions on birth weight and risk of childhood abdominal obesity.
Zhaogen Yang, Bin Dong, Yi Song, Xijie Wang, Yanhui Dong, Di Gao, Yanhui Li, Zhiyong Zou, Jun Ma, Luke Arnold   +9 more
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Correction to: The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) in Africa: a scoping review of its application and validation

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2018
After publication of the article [1], it has been brought to our attention that the authors listed in Table 1 are in the wrong order. They should be listed as follows:
Nikhat Hoosen, Eugene Lee Davids, Petrus J. de Vries, Maylene Shung-King   +3 more
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Ending malnutrition in all its forms requires scaling up proven nutrition interventions and much more: a 129-country analysis

BMC Medicine, 2020
Background Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2.2 calls for an end to all forms of malnutrition, with 2025 targets of a 40% reduction in stunting (relative to 2012), for wasting to occur in less than 5% of children, and for a 50% reduction in anaemia in ...
Nick Scott, Dominic Delport, Samuel Hainsworth, Ruth Pearson, Christopher Morgan, Shan Huang, Jonathan K. Akuoku, Ellen Piwoz, Meera Shekar, Carol Levin, Mike Toole, Caroline SE Homer   +11 more
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Adolescent health

Clinics in Integrated Care, 2022
Adolescent health, or youth health, is the range of approaches to preventing, detecting or treating young peoples health and well-being. The term adolescent and young people are often used interchangeably, as are the terms Adolescent Health and Youth Health.
Órla Walsh, Alf John Nicholson
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Role of polygenic risk scores in the association between chronotype and health risk behaviors

BMC Psychiatry, 2023
Background This study explores the association between chronotypes and adolescent health risk behaviors (HRBs) by testing how genetic background moderates these associations and clarifies the influence of chronotypes and polygenic risk score (PRS) on ...
Yi Zhang, Shuqin Li, Yang Xie, Wan Xiao, Huiqiong Xu, Zhengge Jin, Ruoyu Li, Yuhui Wan, Fangbiao Tao   +8 more
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Trend and heterogeneity in forced vital capacity among Chinese students during 1985–2019: results from Chinese National Survey on Students’ Constitution and Health

Respiratory Research, 2023
Background Forced vital capacity (FVC) reflects respiratory health, but the long-term trend and heterogeneity in FVC of Chinese students were understudied.
Siying Zhang, Lihong Wu, Yumei Zhong, Meirou Shao, Zhiyi Wei, Wenfeng Dong, Aiping Zhu, Fang-biao Tao, Xiulong Wu   +8 more
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Prevalence of excess body weight and underweight among 26 Chinese ethnic minority children and adolescents in 2014: a cross-sectional observational study

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background Little is known regarding the nutritional burden in Chinese ethnic minority children. This study aimed to investigate the epidemiological characteristics of excess body weight and underweight for 26 ethnic groups.
Yanhui Dong, Zhiyong Zou, Zhaogeng Yang, Zhenghe Wang, Yide Yang, Jun Ma, Bin Dong, Yinghua Ma, Luke Arnold   +8 more
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Immediate and longer-term changes in mental health of children with parent–child separation experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, 2023
Background The psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been understudied among vulnerable populations. This study aimed to examine the immediate and longer-term changes in the mental health of children with parent–child separation experiences ...
Peipei Wu, Shihong Wang, Xudong Zhao, Jiao Fang, Fangbiao Tao, Puyu Su, Yuhui Wan, Ying Sun   +7 more
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An association between body image dissatisfaction and digit ratio among Chinese children and adolescents

Scientific Reports, 2021
Body image dissatisfaction (BID) is a negative evaluation of personal physical characteristics, including dissatisfaction with body shape, gender, sexual organs, appearance and so forth, and it plays an important role in growth and development.
Yongting Yuan, Jingyao Hu, Lili Sun, Yifei Zhang, Bangxuan Wang, Rongying Yao, Hui Han, Lianguo Fu   +7 more
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Relative children’s lipid accumulation with hypertension in Chinese children and adolescents

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background This study aimed to develop a novel indicator associated with hypertension in Chinese children and adolescents, the relative children’s lipid accumulation product (RCLAP). Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2018.
Zizhe Zhang, Li Zhang, Lili Sun, Bangxuan Wang, Yongting Yuan, Huaiquan Gao, Lianguo Fu   +6 more
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