Prevalence of obesity. Ten studies also assessed the prevalence of obesity among their study populations [8-16, 18]. Six of the ... The study in Sudan also found a high prevalence of obesity, with a prevalence of 45% in women, but in this study obesity was ... Although this study in Tunisia defined obesity as a BMI ≥25, still they found the lowest prevalence of 5.4% in men and 4.2% in ... The rising levels of urbanization are likely to lead to a high prevalence of obesity due to lifestyle changes such as changing ...

Peirson L, Fitzpatrick-Lewis D, Morrison K, Warren R, Ali MU, Raina P. Treatment of overweight and obesity in children and ... Moodie M, Haby MM, Swinburn B, Carter R. Assessing cost-effectiveness in obesity: active transport program for primary school ... Results of a multi-level intervention to prevent and control childhood obesity among Latino children: the Aventuras Para Niños ... Hawai is opportunity for active living advancement (HO ĀLA): addressing childhood obesity through safe routes to school. ...

... environment features such as availability of supermarkets may shape dietary behaviour and thus overweight and obesity. This ... Obesity has reached epidemic proportions, particularly in developed nations [1]. Obesity arises from an energy imbalance with ... Measuring the food environment and its effects on obesity in the United States: a systematic review of methods and results. J ... Miller LJ, Joyce S, Carter S, Yun G. Associations between childhood obesity and the availability of food outlets in the local ...

Obesity is a global public health issue. Having a BMI of 30 kg/m2 or more (classifying a person as obese) at the start of ... Evaluation of the childhood obesity prevention program Kids - Go for your life Kids - Go for your life (K-GFYL) is an award ... There is an urgent need for more carefully developed public health measures in order to curb the obesity epidemic among youth. ... The program aims to reduce the risk of childhood obesity by improving the socio-cultu... ...

Lifestyle and obesity in South Pacific youth : baseline results from the Pacific obesity prevention in communities (OPIC) ... Obesity severity, dietary behaviors, and lifestyle risks vary by race/ethnicity and age in a northern California cohort of ... Scragg R, Wilson N, Schaaf D, Fitzgerald E, Utter J. Risk factors for obesity in New Zealand children aged 5-14 years: results ... Despite the issue of childhood obesity being at the forefront of policy makers minds, a large proportion of New Zealand (NZ) ...

Healthy Fit, a culturally tailored community health worker (CHW) intervention, aims to reduce obesity related outcomes by ... Hispanic immigrants continue to experience higher rates of overweight and obesity compared to their non-Hispanic counterparts. ... Obesity markedly increases risk for cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, stroke, and some type of cancers, ... Goettler A, Grosse A, Sonntag D. Productivity loss due to overweight and obesity: a systematic review of indirect costs. BMJ ...

... childhood nutrition is a more pervasive and insidious risk factor for lifestyle-related chronic disease than childhood obesity ... Campbell K, Waters E, OMeara S, Kelly S, Summerbell C: Interventions for preventing obesity in children. Obesity Reviews. 2001 ... the early childhood sectors perceptions about childhood overweight and obesity. 2006, NSW Centre for Overweight and Obesity, ... Burrows T, Warren JM, Baur LA, Collins CE: The impact of a child obesity intervention on dietary intake and behaviors. Int J ...

... and Early childhood increasing obesity (4%). Only Young adulthood overweight and Early childhood increasing obesity were ... healthy lifestyle intervention on those whose obesity started in the early years of life or youth. Our results could help ... Simmonds M, Llewellyn A, Owen CG, Woolacott N. Predicting adult obesity from childhood obesity: a systematic review and meta- ... Randomized controlled trial of the MEND program: a family-based community intervention for childhood obesity. Obesity. 2010;18( ...

... and those with overweight or obesity gain more weight during the summer than the school year. Summer day camps, which offer ... Childhood obesity disproportionately affects youth from low-income households. The prevalence of obesity is nearly twice as ... Prevalence of obesity among youths by household income and education level of head of household - United States 2011-2014. MMWR ... 10.9%) [1]. These disparities often persist through the life course as youth with overweight or obesity are more likely to have ...

Kenchaiah S, Evans JC, Levy D, Wilson PW, Benjamin EJ, Larson MG, Kannel WB, Vasan RS: Obesity and the risk of heart failure. N ... Duncan M, Griffith M, Rutter H, Goldacre MJ: Certification of obesity as a cause of death in England 1979-2006. Eur J Public ... Eckel RH: Obesity and heart disease: a statement for healthcare professionals from the Nutrition Committee, American Heart ... Wee CC, Davis RB, Hamel MB: Comparing the SF-12 and SF-36 health status questionnaires in patients with and without obesity. ...

Bastardot F, Marques-Vidal P, Vollenweider P. Association of body temperature with obesity. The CoLaus study. Int J Obesity ( ...

Up to date, most of previous studies about Chinese prehypertension were conducted based on a small sample or in only one province, which could not represent the general population in China. Furthermore, no information on the ethnic difference in prevalence of prehypertension has been reported in China. The aim of this study is to examine the sex-specific, age-specific and ethnic-specific prevalence of prehypertension and associated risk factors in a large-scale multi-ethnic Chinese adult population. The subjects came from a large-scale population survey about Chinese physiological constants and health conditions conducted in six provinces. 47, 495 adults completed blood pressure measurement. Prehypertension was defined as not being on antihypertensive medications and having SBP of 120-139 mmHg and/or DBP of 80-89 mmHg. Odds ratio (OR) and its 95 % confidence interval (CI) from logistic models were used to reflect the prevalence of prehypertension. The mean age of all subjects was 43.9 ±

Co-operative Meta-analysis Group of the Working Group on Obesity in China: Predictive value of body mass index and waist ... Nakamura Y, Turin TC, Kita Y, Tamaki S, Tsujita Y, Kadowaki T, Murakami Y, Okamura T, Ueshima H: Associations of obesity ... It has been well documented that overweight and obesity is now a global epidemic with relatively few countries unaffected. The ... Lawlor DA, Hart CL, Hole DJ, Davey Smith G: Reverse causality and confounding and the associations of overweight and obesity ...

While BMI is typically used to measure the general obesity, WC is a measure of abdominal obesity, and measures both ... Association for Weight Management and Obesity Prevention; NAASO, the Obesity Society; the American Society for Nutrition; and ... WC is widely used to define abdominal obesity with differential reference ranges/cut points for women and men (88 cm for women ... Numerous obesity prevention and education programs may play an important role in reducing the increasing trend. ...

... thus increasing risk of overweight/obesity. Currently, little is understood about how changing friendship networks shape weight ... Is obesity contagious? Social networks vs. environmental factors in the obesity epidemic. J Health Econ. 2008;27(5):1382-7. ... Prevalence of obesity and trends in the distribution of body mass index among US adults, 1999-2010. JAMA. 2012;307(5):491-7. ... Yet, college freshmen are less frequently studied in obesity research [7].. Friends may play a critical role in development of ...

... support the importance of taking age and gender in to consideration when using BMI to predict body fat percentage/obesity, in a ... is used as a useful population-level measure of overweight and obesity. It is used as the same for both sexes and for all ages ... Wang D, Li Y, Lee SG, Wang L, Fan J, Zhang G, Wu J, Ji Y, Li S: Ethnic differences in body composition and obesity related risk ... Overweight and obesity are defined as abnormal or excessive fat accumulation in the body that may impair health [1]. During the ...

Logistic regression (Enter method) determined the obesity and overweight occurrence prospect over the course of implementation ... within the school setting resulted in increased daily PA and decreased overweight/obesity levels in 6-9-year-old children. ... has a vital role in obesity and overweight reduction among younger pupils. ... efforts aimed at the prevention of childhood obesity have led to the implementation of a range of school-based interventions. ...

Due to a worldwide increase in overweight and obesity, weight-management through lifestyle changes has become an important ... Overweight and obesity in young adult women: a matter of health or appearance? The Tromsø study: fit Futures. Int J Qual Stud ... One prominent example regarding prevention is the US White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity [3]. There are however many ... Campos P, Saguy A, Ernsberger P, Oliver E, Gaesser G. The epidemiology of overweight and obesity: public health crisis or moral ...

In the USA, a campaign of eliminating fruit juice to reduce childhood obesity has started [29], and a bill that would ban the ... the high sugar and caffeine contents in sports and energy drinks have been associated with increased risk of obesity, dental ... are associated with increased risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dental caries and other non-communicable diseases ... Reducing childhood obesity by eliminating 100% fruit juice. Am J Public Health. 2012;102(9):1630-3. https://doi.org/10.2105/ ...

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Statements that sugar intake is related to obesity and non-communicable diseases were disproportionately high in both ... Statements that sugar intake is not related to obesity, the HPL will not reduce SSB intake, and the HPL will cause industry or ... Hilton S, Patterson C, Teyhan A. Escalating coverage of obesity in UK newspapers: the evolution and framing of the obesity ... Trends in obesity and diabetes across Africa from 1980 to 2014: an analysis of pooled population-based studies. Int J Epidemiol ...

Because obesity tends to track from childhood into adulthood, experts have recommended that obesity prevention be initiated as ... Goran MI, Reynolds KD, Lindquist CH: Role of physical activity in the prevention of obesity in children. Int J Obes Relat Metab ... In the past two decades, the obesity rate of preschool-aged children in developed countries like the United States has ... Salois MJ: The built environment and obesity among low-income preschool children. Health Place. 2012, 18 (3): 520-527. ...

... no significant association of any obesity measure with sick days was found, but changes in both, abdominal obesity (unpublished ... Abdominal obesity was defined as a WHtR ≥ 0.5 following the recommendation of McCarthy and Ashwell [19]. A six minute run test ... Comorbidities of obesity in school children: a cross-sectional study in the PIAMA birth cohort. BMC Public Health. 2010;10:184. ... Is central obesity associated with poorer health and health-related quality of life in primary school children? Cross-sectional ...

There is mounting concern over increasing rates of physical inactivity and overweight/obesity among children and adult in ... Starky S: The Obesity Epidemic in Canada. 2005, Library of Parliament. Parliamentary Information and Research Service. Ottawa ... Katzmarzyk PT, Janssen I: The economic costs associated with physical inactivity and obesity in Canada: an update. Can J Appl ... There is growing concern in Canada over increasing rates of overweight/obesity and declining levels of physical fitness among ...

School is a multi-cultural setting where students need social, material, physical, and mental resources to attain school achievement. But they are often lacking, especially for immigrant students. In an early adolescence context, this study assessed risk for school difficulties among European and non-European immigrants and the roles of socioeconomic characteristics, physical health, psychological health, social relationships, living environment, and unhealthy behaviours. This cross-sectional study included 1,559 middle-school adolescents from north-eastern France, who completed a self-administered questionnaire including socioeconomic characteristics (gender, age, family structure, fathers occupation, and family income), WHO-Quality of life (measuring the four dimensions physical health, psychological health, social relationships, and living environment), unhealthy behaviours (last-30-day uses of tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, and other illicit drugs and no regular sports/physical activities), grade

The prevalence of obesity among , 25 years old women in Lithuania increased from 1% in 2005 to 8% in 2019 [28]; the intake of ... Risk factors during adolescence or early adulthood, e.g. increased prevalence of overweight or obesity, lower levels of ... The risk factors for PC remain mostly unidentified, however common factors like "westernization" (increasing obesity, dietary ... overweight and obesity, hormone replacement therapy and screening mammography [7, 31, 32]. It is likely that postponement of ...

Obesity is associated with the development of non-communicable diseases, including cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. The ... Framing childhood obesity: How individualizing the problem affects public support for prevention. Polit Psychol. 2013;34:327-49 ... Hardus PM, Van Vuuren CL, Crawford D, Worsley A. Public perceptions of the causes and prevention of obesity among primary ... Oliver JE, Lee T. Public opinion and the politics of obesity in America. J Health Polit Policy Law. 2007;30:923-54. ...

25.6% of participants had a total cholesterol level > 5 mmol/l. We found a high prevalence of hypertension, obesity in women ... The levels of obesity were lower than levels reported in urban black people in South Africa [37]. The large difference in ... Kruger HS, Venter CS, Vorster HH: Obesity in African women in the North West Province, South Africa is associated with an ... Puoane T, Steyn K, Bradshaw D, Laubscher R, Fourie J, Lambert V, Mbananga N: Obesity in South Africa: The South African ...

Obesity prevention should start early in life [1]. Educational intervention programs focusing on the individual (e.g. diets, ... The influence of the food environment on overweight and obesity in young children: a systematic review. BMJ open. 2012;2(6). ... nutrition and exercise programs for children) have long dominated the field, but have not been successful at stopping obesity. ... environmental factors that promote obesity through inactivity and unbalanced nutrition. In this context, targeting childrens ...

McTigue KM, Harris R, Hemphill B, Lux L, Sutton S, Bunton AJ, et al: Screening and interventions for obesity in adults: summary ... Forman-Hoffman V, Little A, Wahls T: Barriers to obesity management: a pilot study of primary care clinicians. BMC Fam Pract. ... Latner JD: Self-help in the long-term treatment of obesity. Obes Rev. 2001, 2: 87-97. 10.1046/j.1467-789x.2001.00028.x. ... James PT, Rigby N, Leach R: The obesity epidemic, metabolic syndrome and future prevention strategies. Eur J Cardiovasc Prev ...