Obesity in childhood and adolescence is considered a significant public health concern both nationally globally, as it results several problems long-term psychosocial complications. In addition, this has been growing due to overweight obesity, showing an increase worldwide of more than 340 million children adolescents aged 5 19 years being overweight.

CONTEXT The prevalence of childhood overweight status is increasing. Some have suggested that childhood overweight is associated with food insecurity, defined as limited or uncertain access to enough nutritious food. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this work was to assess the association of household and child food insecurity with childhood overweight status. METHODS The National Health and Nutri...

BACKGROUND We sought to demonstrate that the relationship between urban or rural residence and overweight status among women in Sub-Saharan Africa is complex and confounded by wealth status. METHODS We applied multilevel logistic regression to data from 30 sub-Saharan African countries which were collected between 2006 and 2012 to examine the association between women's overweight status (bod...

Over the past three decades, overweight has become a major health problem among children and adolescents. Using ageand gender-adjusted growth charts for children, overweight is defined as body mass index (BMI) (weight in kg/height in m) >95th percentile and at risk for overweight is defined as BMI >85th and <95th percentile (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2006). There is no agreed-...

conclusions elevation of liver enzymes appears in 29 % obese children in a tertiary care centre. absolute alanine aminotransferase levels are significantly higher in obese than in overweight children. even obese children with normal liver enzymes show signs of fatty liver disease as demonstrated by liver enzymes at the upper limit of normal. results elevated alanine aminotransferase was observe...

background: a balanced nutrition schedule provides the essential substances for proper oral health. objectives: the aim of this study was to investigate the association between dental caries and body mass index in 6-11 year-old children in zahedan. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study 1213 children (670 girls, 543 boys) were included. body mass index (bmi) and clinical examinati...

Objective: The data on the changes in the prevalence of obesity and overweight could help policy makers to make better plans for improving the health status of people; hence, the aim of his study is to evaluate the prevalence and incidence of overweight, obesity and abdominal obesity in Ahvaz during five years. Materials and Methods: Cohort study was the method of choice in this survey, conduc...

BACKGROUND In Chile, overweight and obesity are pressing issues in public health. AIM To identify individual, social and environmental factors that affect the likelihood of adolescents to become overweight or obese. MATERIAL AND METHODS We used physical condition data of a sample of 900 urban eighth grade students from Santiago, obtained in the 2011 National Study of Physical Education. Thi...

BACKGROUND Schools are regarded as an important setting for the prevention of overweight. This study presents a nationally representative picture of the obesogenity of the school environment, the awareness of schools regarding overweight, and actions taken by the schools aiming at overweight prevention. In addition, differences between school levels were studied. METHODS In 2006-2007, questio...