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Overweight9
  • In a new study, researchers studied whether frequent family meals during adolescence were protective for overweight and obesity in adulthood. (sciencedaily.com)
  • According to Dr. Berge, "It is important to identify modifiable factors in the home environment, such as family meals, that can protect against overweight/obesity through the transition to adulthood. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Among adolescents who reported that they never ate family meals together, 60% were overweight and 29% were obese at the 10-year follow-up. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Overall, all levels of baseline family meal frequency, even having as few as 1-2 family meals a week during adolescence, were significantly associated with reduced odds of overweight or obesity at the 10-year follow-up compared with those reporting never having had family meals during adolescence. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Family meals may be protective against obesity or overweight because coming together for meals may provide opportunities for emotional connections among family members, the food is more likely to be healthful, and adolescents may be exposed to parental modeling of healthful eating behaviors. (sciencedaily.com)
  • As noted by Dr. Berge, "Informing parents that even having 1 or 2 family meals per week may protect their child from overweight or obesity in young adulthood would be important. (sciencedaily.com)
  • This study evaluated parental variables involved in the outpatient treatment of overweight/obese children, in variables included food control, stressors and coping, as well as family psychosocial risk. (bvsalud.org)
  • For adults, overweight is defined as a relative weight ratio higher than desirable to height whereas obesity is excessive fat accumulation in the body, with body mass index (BMI) higher than 25 kg/m2 (World Health Organization, 2017). (bvsalud.org)
  • 2014). In Brazil, in the age group 5 to 9 years, the percentage of overweight children reached an alarming 33.5%, according to the last Survey of Family Budgets/ Pesquisa de Orçamentos Familiares (POF 2008-09), conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics/ Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE, 2008). (bvsalud.org)
Measure a person's body fat2
  • Skinfold calipers are a tool to measure a person's body fat. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • The BMI does not directly measure a person's body fat. (aace.com)
Cardiometabolic risk1
  • Methods: To assess the effects of work -to- family conflict (WTFC) on biomarkers of cardiometabolic risk, we examined 1524 extended care employees over 18 months and estimated multilevel linear models that accounted for the nested nature of the data. (cdc.gov)
Adults7
  • Stability and longitudinal association between Body Mass Index and maladaptive eating behaviors in older adults: Results from the NutriAct Family Study (NFS). (bvsalud.org)
  • Results also showed a stronger protective effect of family meal frequency on obesity among black young adults compared with white young adults. (sciencedaily.com)
  • To help children grow into prepared, productive adults, parents need jobs with family-sustaining pay, affordable housing and the ability to invest in their children's future. (aecf.org)
  • Circulating Procollagen type III N-terminal peptide (P3NP) and Physical Function in Adults from The Long Life Family Study. (sdu.dk)
  • Epidemiology of Perceived Physical Fatigability in Older Adults: The Long Life Family Study. (sdu.dk)
  • Body mass index is positively associated with bone mineral density in US older adults. (medlineplus.gov)
  • We defined need as the prevalence of obesity (body mass index in kg/m2 30) and the level of concern about memory problems among older adults aged 60 years or older. (cdc.gov)
Assess2
Person's4
Behaviors3
  • Associations among work and family health climate, health behaviors, work schedule, and body weight. (cdc.gov)
  • This study examines interrelations among health behaviors, health climate, body mass index (BMI), and work schedule. (cdc.gov)
  • Methods: Using survey results from correctional supervisors (n=157), mediation and moderated-mediation analyses were performed to examine how health behaviors explain relationships between obesity, work health climate (WHC) and family health climate (FHC), and work schedule. (cdc.gov)
Muscle mass4
Waist3
Risk17
  • The earlier in life children reach their lowest body mass index (BMI) signals potential heart disease risk factors and may become evident as early as age 7, researchers reported at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2007. (news-medical.net)
  • Work and family stressors may be associated with elevated cardiovascular risk factors. (cdc.gov)
  • Family members caring for chronically ill relatives are typically sedentary, chronically stressed, and at high risk of disease. (nih.gov)
  • Among the non-modifiable risk factor for CVDs family history holds a lot of importance. (ijpediatrics.com)
  • The dose-response curve demonstrated a positive linear connection between the TyG index and the risk of ED. (frontiersin.org)
  • Other traditional risk factors for osteoporosis - like smoking, low body weight, drinking alcohol and low levels of testosterone - tend to be more common in people living with HIV. (tht.org.uk)
  • Whether height or body mass index (BMI) modifies breast cancer risk in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers remains unclear. (uni-koeln.de)
  • Patients identified as high risk with the lifetime risk approach were more likely to be younger, male, from ethnic minority groups, and have a positive family history of premature coronary heart disease than those identified with the 10 year QRISK2 score. (bmj.com)
  • Nov. 3, 2021 Obesity risk factors of family background are associated with changes in the brain function, finds a new study. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Whether height or body mass index (BMI) modifies breast cancer risk in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers remains unclear.Methods: We used Mendelian randomization approaches to evaluate the association of height and BMI on breast cancer risk, using data from the Consortium of Investigators of Modifiers of BRCA1/2 with 14 676 BRCA1 and 7912 BRCA2 mutation carriers, including 11 451 cases of breast cancer. (maastrichtuniversity.nl)
  • A large body of scientific evidence supports the critical role of inflammation markers (including adipokines, bioactive mediators secreted directly from adipocytes, and vascular cells within adipose tissue) in the development of systemic inflammation that contributes to vasculopathy and cardiovascular risk within obese individuals [ 1 , 2 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Participants were recruited between July 2011 and February 2014, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from (i) the patient population of a large urban academic family medicine outpatient practice serving 40,000 individuals and (ii) a cohort of 500 young adult African Americans enrolled in prior investigations of cardiovascular risk. (hindawi.com)
  • and cardiac risk factors including lack of exercise, smoking, body mass index, and diet. (nursingcenter.com)
  • The relationship between body mass index (BMI) and prostate cancer risk may be complex because obesity is associated with various hormonal factors and because the influence of BMI may differ according to whether the cancers are hereditary or sporadic. (harvard.edu)
  • A study conducted in Newfoundland and Labrador has confirmed that a higher body mass index (BMI) is associated with increased risk for chronic diseases, and is also associated with an increased number of visits to family physicians. (mun.ca)
  • Colorectal cancer risk based on extended family history and body mass index. (cdc.gov)
  • Most families showed medium-high psychosocial risk (Targeted = 52.6%, Clinical = 21.1%) and the most common parental practice of food control was to Encourage Balance and Variety, and the Restriction of food. (bvsalud.org)
Maternal1
  • We applied a clustering method to longitudinal data to identify body shape trajectories from 5 to 40 years of age and assessed the associations between these trajectories and birth weight, body mass index and sociodemographic conditions (race, education, maternal education and monthly per capita family income) using multiple correspondence analysis. (biomedcentral.com)
Weight15
  • This equated to a loss of less than 5% of total body weight. (news-medical.net)
  • A BMI is an estimate of an individual's body that compares their height and weight. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • was normal for height, weight, and body mass index. (cdc.gov)
  • Your body mass index (BMI) is an estimate of your body fat that is based on your height and weight. (aarp.org)
  • The key to keeping kids of all ages at a healthy weight is taking a whole-family approach. (uen.org)
  • The link between body weight and health has been generally acknowledged. (uniprix.com)
  • A low body weight can also be a sign of an eating disorder. (uniprix.com)
  • His body mass index (BMI) is 37.4 kg/m 2 , and you are frustrated that he has not followed your recommendations to lose weight. (cfp.ca)
  • A good way to decide if your weight is healthy for your height is to figure out your body mass index (BMI). (medlineplus.gov)
  • This study aimed to evaluate body shape trajectories across the lifespan and to verify associations between them, birth weight, body mass index, and sociodemographic conditions in a Brazilian cohort. (biomedcentral.com)
  • High birth weight was associated with maintaining large body size in both sexes and markedly increased body shape in women. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The study shows that variables related to worse lifetime weight status (evaluated by anthropometry), such as presence of obesity, are also associated with worse body shape trajectories, as assessed with silhouette scales. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Our results suggest that body shape trajectories are a good indicator of body weight trajectories and may be used when cohort studies are not possible. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Body weight trajectory is defined as changes in weight over life, and one way to evaluate it is the use of silhouette scales, a set of figures representing the body, from very lean to very heavy [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The latter can be used as a proxy for body weight trajectory because silhouettes scales have high correlation with body mass index (BMI) and they work well to identify obesity and underweight in the Brazilian adult and older adult population [ 6 , 7 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
20173
  • We investigated this family cluster at the request of her 2-year-old brother developed a mild fever with no rash the treating physician in August 2017, on the eighth day or mucocutaneous lesions. (cdc.gov)
  • 1 The biographies of the commissioners are available a t: http://www.who.int/end-childhood-obesity/about/en/ (accessed 6 March 2017). (who.int)
  • 1 http://www.who.int/end-childhood-obesity/implementation-plan/en/ (accessed 6 March 2017). (who.int)
Diabetes4
Prevalence2
  • A logistic regression analysis, subgroup analysis, and the computation of the dose-response curve were used to investigate the relationship between TyG index and ED prevalence among participants from the 2001-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) database. (frontiersin.org)
  • It has been shown that a higher TyG index is associated with a higher prevalence of erectile dysfunction. (frontiersin.org)
Cohort2
  • Using ~20,000 individuals in the Generation Scotland family cohort genotyped for ~700,000 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), we exploit the high levels of linkage disequilibrium (LD) found in members of the same family to quantify the total effect of genetic variants that are not tagged in GWAS of unrelated individuals. (nature.com)
  • A novel healthy metabolic phenotype developed among a cohort of families enriched for longevity. (sdu.dk)
Genetics2
  • Barlassina C, Lanzani C, Manunta P, Bianchi G. Genetics of essential hypertension: from families to genes. (ijpediatrics.com)
  • Genetics of physiological dysregulation: findings from the long life family study using joint models. (sdu.dk)
Genes2
  • BACKGROUND: Candidate gene and twin studies suggest that interactions between body mass index (BMI) and genes contribute to the variability of blood pressure (BP). (wustl.edu)
  • The genes you receive from your parents can influence how much body fat you store, how you process it and where the fat is distributed. (aace.com)
Medicus1
  • Neurología, founded in 1986, is the official scientific Journal of the Spanish Neurology Society (Sociedad Española de Neurología, SEN). It is edited by Dr. Jorge Matías-Guiu and is indexed in the most important international data bases, such as Science Citation Index or Index Medicus/MEDLINE. (elsevier.es)
Positively1
Sociodemographic1
  • Higher sociodemographic status and white race were associated with marked increases in body shape in men and maintenance of medium body shape in women. (biomedcentral.com)
Modifiable factors1
  • Few studies have considered the joint association of body mass index (BMI) and physical activity, two modifiable factors, with all-cause mortality after breast cancer diagnosis. (nih.gov)
Significantly2
  • The group with family history of CVDs had significantly higher number of adolescents with obesity and/or hypertension. (ijpediatrics.com)
  • Black children were significantly more likely to live in single-parent families and high-poverty neighborhoods. (aecf.org)
Asians2
METHODS1
  • The report provides recommendations for how to help prevent and achieve pregnancy, emphasizes offering a full range of contraceptive methods for persons seeking to prevent pregnancy, highlights the special needs of adolescent clients, and encourages the use of the family planning visit to provide selected preventive health services for women, in accordance with the recommendations for women issued by the Institute of Medicine and adopted by HHS. (cdc.gov)
Higher3
Pregnancy1
  • The recommendations outline how to provide quality family planning services, which include contraceptive services, pregnancy testing and counseling, helping clients achieve pregnancy, basic infertility services, preconception health services, and sexually transmitted disease services. (cdc.gov)
Participants3
  • In total, 964 participants of the NutriAct Family Study (Mage = 63.34 years) completed web-based questionnaires two times (M = 3.33 years apart). (bvsalud.org)
  • Leukocyte Telomere Length Is Unrelated to Cognitive Performance Among Non-Demented and Demented Persons: An Examination of Long Life Family Study Participants. (sdu.dk)
  • Patterns of multi-domain cognitive aging in participants of the Long Life Family Study. (sdu.dk)
Intake2
  • Aim: To determine the association between dental caries, Body Mass Index (BMI) and sugar intake in children attending primary school. (bvsalud.org)
  • In this context, the objective was to determine the association between dental caries, Body Mass Index (BMI) and sugar intake in children attending primary school in the countryside of Araçatuba, SP, Brazil. (bvsalud.org)
Estimate1
  • You and your health care provider can use your BMI to estimate how much body fat you have. (medlineplus.gov)
Adolescents1
  • However, the limited significant interactions overall by race/ethnicity suggest that the protective influence of family meals for adolescents spans all races/ethnicities. (sciencedaily.com)
Study8
  • This study was conducted at a community health center in Chelsea, Massachusetts. (cdc.gov)
  • This study aims to investigate the relationship between triglyceride glucose index (TyG) and erectile dysfunction (ED) among United States (US) adult males. (frontiersin.org)
  • A qualitative study exploring the perspective of patients and family. (ahrq.gov)
  • Composite Measure of Physiological Dysregulation as a Predictor of Mortality: The Long Life Family Study. (sdu.dk)
  • Long Life Family Study Research Group. (sdu.dk)
  • Long Life Family Study. (sdu.dk)
  • The APOE ε4 allele is associated with a reduction in FEV1/FVC in women: A cross-sectional analysis of the Long Life Family Study. (sdu.dk)
  • Ma M, Feng Z, Liu X, Jia G, Geng B, Xia Y. The saturation effect of body mass index on bone mineral density for people over 50 years old: a cross-sectional study of the US population. (medlineplus.gov)
Children8
  • This report can assist primary care providers in offering family planning services that will help women, men, and couples achieve their desired number and spacing of children and increase the likelihood that those children are born healthy. (cdc.gov)
  • This guide summarizes what today's mathematics classroom is like, offers tips on how family members can help their children have a positive attitude and enjoy mathematics, and presents practical ways to discuss and do math at home together during everyday situations. (uen.org)
  • Family safety reporting in hospitalized children with medical complexity. (ahrq.gov)
  • Family safety reporting in medically complex children: parent, staff, and leader perspectives. (ahrq.gov)
  • As always, policymakers, researchers and advocates can continue using this information to help shape their work and build a stronger future for children, families and communities. (aecf.org)
  • Not surprisingly, nearly all index measures indicated that children with the same potential experienced disparate outcomes. (aecf.org)
  • Because diet influences the potential for learning as well as health, an objective of the first national education goal is that children 'receive the nutrition and health care needed to arrive at school with healthy minds and bodies' (3). (cdc.gov)
  • There are also psychological consequences, such as depression, anxiety, body image distortion and socialization problems, in children too (Sahoo et al. (bvsalud.org)
Baseline1
  • Baseline responses from 309 pediatric physicians, nurses, and residents at one hospital revealed that the majority have received verbal threats from patients or family members. (ahrq.gov)
Factors3
  • It's important to know that many factors besides BMI - including family history, eating habits and activity levels - also affect your overall health. (aarp.org)
  • General intelligence has been found to be heritable, with twin and family studies estimating that 50 to 80% [ 5 ] of phenotypic variance is due to additive genetic factors, a proportion that increases with age from childhood to adulthood [ 6 ]. (nature.com)
  • There are different factors that can contribute to a person having obesity, including family history and one's environment. (aace.com)
Cancer1
  • 001, two-sided Wald test) and between BMI and family history of prostate cancer (P-interaction=.006, two-sided Wald test). (harvard.edu)
Healthcare1
  • Adverse event reviews in healthcare: what matters to patients and their family? (ahrq.gov)
Cholesterol2
  • They help the body regulate blood sugar, fats and cholesterol, keep the blood vessels healthier, help prevent DNA damage and reduce inflammation in the body. (nbcnews.com)
  • Gene discovery for high-density lipoprotein cholesterol level change over time in prospective family studies. (sdu.dk)
Absorb2
  • It's important to eat enough food containing calcium, which strengthens bones, and vitamin D, which helps your body to absorb calcium. (tht.org.uk)
  • In order for your body to absorb the calcium, you also need 600 IU (international units) of vitamin D per day until age 70, then 800 IU per day after age 70. (bannerhealth.com)
Correspondence1
  • it will not receive a DOI and will not be indexed unless it is also republished as a Letter, Correspondence or as other content. (bmj.com)
Association1
  • Association of patient and family reports of hospital safety climate with language proficiency in the US. (ahrq.gov)
Blood Pressure1
  • Heterogeneity of healthy aging: comparing long-lived families across five healthy aging phenotypes of blood pressure, memory, pulmonary function, grip strength, and metabolism. (sdu.dk)
Healthy2
  • Make healthy eating and exercise a family affair. (uen.org)
  • The guidelines include recommendations on seven aspects of a school-based program to promote healthy eating: school policy on nutrition, a sequential, coordinated curriculum, appropriate instruction for students, integration of school food service and nutrition education, staff training, family and community involvement, and program evaluation. (cdc.gov)
Ethnicity1
  • Offensive behavior from patients or family members was commonly based on provider age, gender, race/ethnicity, or appearance. (ahrq.gov)
Percentage2
  • However, if the measurements are correct, they can be a good measure of body fat percentage and how it changes over time. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • A person can input the numbers into an online calculator , which gives an individual their body fat percentage. (medicalnewstoday.com)
Health8
  • For many young girls, a stable family life is one key factor to avoiding a number of serious health problems. (news-medical.net)
  • Family planning services can help address these and other public health challenges by providing education, counseling, and medical services ( 5 ). (cdc.gov)
  • findings from the Work Family Health Network. (cdc.gov)
  • Dr Vallis is Associate Professor of family medicine and psychiatry and Adjunct Professor of psychology at Dalhousie University, and Lead of the Behaviour Change Institute at Capital Health in Halifax, NS. (cfp.ca)
  • Some parents might find a diagnosis confusing or stressful, so it can be helpful to get some support from family, friends and health professionals. (nct.org.uk)
  • Broadly speaking, kids nationwide experienced gains in the Economic Well-Being domain and promising-but-mixed results in the Health, Education, and Family and Community domains. (aecf.org)
  • The Foundation derives a composite index of overall child well-being for each state by combining data across four domains: (1) Economic Well-Being, (2) Education, (3) Health and (4) Family and Community. (aecf.org)
  • You will also have visits with lifestyle specialists or a community health worker every other week and learn about community programs that might be helpful for your family. (nemours.org)
Calcium1
  • It has been suggested that family meals, which tend to include fruits, vegetables, calcium, and whole grains, could be protective against obesity. (sciencedaily.com)
Patient3
  • The index case-patient showed only mild febrile illness, uncongested and there were no rashes or mucocutaneous le- whereas the other 2 patients showed acute encephalitis and died of the disease. (cdc.gov)
  • His intermittent fever subsided postinfection of the index case-patient. (cdc.gov)
  • Addressing mistreatment of providers by patients and family members as a patient safety event. (ahrq.gov)
Child2