CONTEXT The prevalence of overweight and obesity has increased markedly in the last 2 decades in the United States. OBJECTIVE To update the US prevalence estimates of overweight in children and obesity in adults, using the most recent national data of height and weight measurements. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS As part of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), a...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the prevalence of obesity and distribution of body mass index (BMI) in school children of four ethnic groups in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China. METHODS A total of 55508 school children of Han, Hui, Uygur and Kazak nationalities aged 8-18 years were selected by a cluster sampling from a districts of Urumqi City for anthropometric measurement and demographic survey. Prevalence...

OBJECTIVE The rapidly increasing prevalence of obesity in children is the most important problem facing pediatricians today. A recent study suggested an association of obesity and constipation in children but lacked a control group for comparison. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the prevalence of obesity in a large cohort of children with functional constipation and to compare it ...

The perception of obesity among people has not changed significantly regardless numerous public educational programs. Reasons for obesity pandemics are numerous and complex, but can be mostly resumed to life-style changes. The aim of this research was to determine connection between socioeconomic factors and obesity with children of our region. Study included pupils aged 7-8 from 19 first grade...

BACKGROUND Breast feeding appears to play a role in determining obesity and abdominal obesity during childhood, specifically in children with a history of low birth weight. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation of breast-feeding with either of abdominal obesity and obesity among Iranian school children. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 1184 students (625 girls a...

CONTEXT Obesity is the most common health problem facing children. The most recent data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III suggest that 22% of children and adolescents are overweight and that 11% are obese. OBJECTIVE To investigate prospectively the association between the home environment and socioeconomic factors and the development of obesity in children. DESIG...

Based on data collected from a representative national sample, India Human Development Survey 2005, this paper investigates the links between obesity among children and among adults with a number of socio economic characteristics as well as household and location specific variables. Both child and adult obesity are far from negligible, which is a matter of concern, given the links between obesi...

Background: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is increasingly a common disease which is created by the accumulation of fat in the liver. About 20% of adults and 5% of children suffer from this disease. In some studies, half of obese children had fatty liver disease and approximately 90% of the patients with fatty liver were obese. The aim of this study was to evaluate fatty liver diseas...

the purpose of this study was to assess the nutritional condition and correlation between daily physical activity and obesity in 11-year old girls. the subjects were 325 11-year old students with different cultural-economical levels who were chosen by chance and then they fill out 7-day exercise, nutritional, tendency of physical activity in children and teenagers questionnaire by the help of t...