The causes of childhood overweight are numerous and inter-related. The mother-child relationship is of great significance for the child's health. Previous studies have found patterns of dysfunctional interaction in families with obese children. Therefore, development of childhood overweight could be due to the mother-child relationship. The aim of this study was to investigate how, and to what ...

CONTEXT The prevalence of overweight among children in the United States increased between 1976-1980 and 1988-1994, but estimates for the current decade are unknown. OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of overweight in US children using the most recent national data with measured weights and heights and to examine trends in overweight prevalence. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Survey o...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to examine whether child-caregivers', both parents and kindergarten teachers, health parameters (age, weight status, habitual physical activity score) are significantly associated with the risk of overweight in young children. METHODS We assessed the individual body mass index standard deviation score in a regional cross-sectional health study and matched ...

An increase in Leptin levels is well-known in obese individuals which is the consequence of increased body fat mass. Cigarette smoking is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality with Respiratory and Cardiovascular disease. Adipocytokines like Leptin have been identified to play an important role in obesity and inflammation. Objective The main objective of this study is to compare ser...

Migration, chiefly from rural to urban areas has been linked to precursor conditions of cardiovascular diseases. We estimated the odds of overweight/obesity ( BMI >=25 kg/m2) associated with different patterns of internal migration, using data from the National Family Health Survey 3, a cross-sectional survey that covered 29 states of India in 2005/06. A total of 56,498 non-pregnant women, aged...

This study aimed to assess the prevalence of overweight misperception, unhealthy diet practices, and factors associated with these weight-related behaviors among Korean adolescents. The subjects were a nationally representative sample of non-overweight students (52,515 in 2005, 64,084 in 2006, and 67,113 in 2007) in middle and high schools who completed the Korea Youth Risk Behavior Web-Based S...

background: in this study, we aim to compare insulin and leptin levels in adolescents with or without overweight and in those with or without abdominal obesity. materials and methods: this case-control study was conducted among 486 samples. we randomly selected 243 overweight and an equal number of normal-weight adolescents from among participants of the third survey of a national surveillance ...

The recent separation of non-eating disordered obesity into a subtype that is high in negative affect and a subtype that is low in negative affect led to the hypothesis that the two subtypes would show opposite eating responses to typical triggers of overeating. Overweight/obese and normal weight participants, clustered into high and low negative affect subtypes, took part in an experiment usin...