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Prevention and Management of Childhood Obesity and Its Psychological and Health Comorbidities

open access: yesAnnual Review of Clinical Psychology, 2020
Childhood obesity has become a global pandemic in developed countries, leading to a host of medical conditions that contribute to increased morbidity and premature death.
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Childhood Obesity: An Updated Review.

Current pediatric reviews, 2022
BACKGROUND Childhood obesity is an important and serious public health problem worldwide. OBJECTIVE This article aims to familiarize physicians with the evaluation, management, and prevention of childhood. METHODS A PubMed search was conducted in May
Alexander K. C. Leung   +2 more
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Improving the school food environment for the prevention of childhood obesity: What works and what doesn't

Obesity Reviews, 2021
The food environment has a significant influence on dietary choices, and interventions designed to modify the food environment could contribute to the prevention of childhood obesity.
E. Pineda, Josefina Bascuñan, F. Sassi
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Childhood obesity

Postgraduate Medicine, 1990
More effort should be invested in preventing obesity than is currently practiced, because prevention is much more successful than treatment, in either children or adults. Most obese children or adults. Most obese children have exogenous obesity, which is caused by increased caloric intake, reduced energy output, or overly efficient calorie utilization.
A K, Leung, W L, Robson
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Childhood obesity

Current Opinion in Lipidology, 2011
As childhood obesity is associated with premature death in adults, a research is critical. This review focuses on the recent proceedings concerning genesis, prevention, and treatment.Identifying genetic variants in well phenotyped small cohorts of extremely obese children (e.g., the search for copy number variants in obesity-associated large ...
Thomas, Reinehr, Martin, Wabitsch
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Perspectives and challenges of epigenetic determinants of childhood obesity: A systematic review

Obesity Reviews, 2021
The tremendous increase in childhood obesity prevalence over the last few decades cannot merely be explained by genetics and evolutionary changes in the genome, implying that gene–environment interactions, such as epigenetic modifications, likely play a ...
R. Alfano   +5 more
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OBESITY IN CHILDHOOD

Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 1964
Obesity is now the most frequent nutritional disorder of childhood in the so‐called developed countries of the world. It is due to an increase in the amount of adipose tissue but, because it is technically difficult to measure the exact amount of adipose tissue, obesity is usually defined in terms of body weight. In general an individual who weighs 20%
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Childhood obesity

Panminerva Medica, 2018
Childhood obesity has assumed epidemic proportions and it is currently one of the most prevalent public health problems. The pathophysiology of excess weight gain is complex with interactions between genetic factors, environment and biological factors. In this review, we highlight the epidemiology of childhood obesity and discuss clinical evaluation of
Seema, Kumar, Tara, Kaufman
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Obesity in Childhood

Pediatrics In Review, 1989
It is estimated that as many as 25% of children and 30% of adults in the United States are obese. Clinicians need little reminding of the intractable nature of this disorder and the need for more effective and long-lasting therapies, Obesity in childhood may lay the foundation of the degenerative cardiovascular diseases that may or may not be grossly ...
M, Rosenbaum, R L, Leibel
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