BACKGROUND Short sleep duration has been shown to associate with increased risk of obesity. Childhood obesity is more prevalent among underserved minority children. The study measured the sleep duration of underserved minority children living in a large US urban environment using accelerometry and its relationship with BMI, socioeconomic status (SES), gender, ethnicity and physical activity. ...

Objectives: To determine prevalence of screen time use among children aged between less than 1 year to 5 years old, and identify the association obesity in this age group. Methods: A cross-sectional study included 355 from 1year years, that was conducted at well baby clinics primary health care Makkah, kingdom Saudi arabia, July 2021 august 2021. The data were collected by a validated questionn...

In the present paper, we extend Garaev’s techniques to the set of fields which are not necessarily of prime order. Our goal here is just to find an explicit estimate in the supercritical setting where the set A has less cardinality than the square root of the cardinality of the field, and interacts in a less than half-dimensional way with any subfields. (We make this precise below.) Precisely, ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the stigmatization of obesity relative to the stigmatization of various disabilities among young men and women. Attitudes across ethnic groups were compared. In addition, these findings were compared with data showing severe stigmatization of obesity among children. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES Participants included 356 university students (56% women; mean age, 20.6 yea...

Obesity is a complex disease with not only physical consequences but also psychological. The aim of the present work was to analyze differences between community children with normal weight versus community overweight children versus children with overweight in clinical setting, at the level of quality of life, psychological morbidity and self-concept . The study sample has 267 children represe...

BACKGROUND Socioeconomic inequalities in childhood obesity prevalence differ according to a country's stage of nutrition transition. The aim of this study was to determine which socioeconomic factors influence inequalities in obesity prevalence in Chinese primary school children living in an urban setting. METHODS We assessed obesity prevalence among 9917 children aged 5-12 years from a strat...

OBJECTIVE To investigate possible associations of lifestyle patterns with obesity and fat mass in children. DESIGN Cross-sectional epidemiological study. Principal component analysis was used to identify lifestyle patterns. SETTING Primary schools from four regions in Greece. SUBJECTS A total of 2073 schoolchildren (aged 9-13 years). RESULTS Children in the fourth quartile of the lifest...

background: obesity has a growing global epidemic with several risk factors including lifestyle habits, physical activity, and prolonged screen time. this study aimed to compare the dietary habits and self-reported health behaviors in a nationally representative sample of iranian children and adolescents. materials and methods: this cross sectional nationwide study was conducted in the framewor...

OBJECTIVE Behavioral treatment of children suffering from hypothalamic obesity or uncomplicated obesity in combination with syndromes that aggravate this condition has proven to be ineffective. The combination of comorbidities and severe obesity lower the quality of these children's lives drastically. The present goal was to determine whether treatment with sibutramine has a beneficial effect o...

BACKGROUND Nearly one in five 4-year-old children in the United States are obese, with low-income children almost twice as likely to be obese as their middle/upper-income peers. Few obesity prevention programs for low-income preschoolers and their parents have been rigorously tested, and effects are modest. We are testing a novel obesity prevention program for low-income preschoolers built on t...