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Psychological aspects of childhood obesity. Childhood obesity is defined as a body mass index (BMI) at or above the 96th percentile for children of the same age and sex. It can cause a variety of health problems, including high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes, breathing problems, sleeping problems, and joint problems ...
The normal range for BMI in children vary with age and sex. While a BMI above the 85th percentile is defined as overweight, a BMI greater than or equal to the 95th percentile is defined as obesity by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Obesity is further categorized as class 1 obesity with BMI at or above the 95th percentile ...
Prevalence. According to the CDC, For the 2015–2016 year, the CDC found that the prevalence of obesity for children aged 2–19 years old, in the U.S., was 18.5%. [7] The current trends show that children aged 12–19 years old, have obesity levels 2.2% higher than children 6–11 years old (20.6% vs. 18.4%), and children 6–11 years old ...
Obesity in adulthood. For both children and adults, obesity increases the risk of: Type 2 diabetes. Breathing issues. Joint problems. Gallstones and gallbladder disease. High blood pressure and ...
Obesity classification is a ranking of obesity, the medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it has an adverse effect on health. [1] The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies obesity by body mass index (BMI). BMI is further evaluated in terms of fat distribution via the waist–hip ratio and total ...
In the United States the number of children a person has had is related to their risk of obesity. A woman's risk of obesity increases by 7% per child, while a man's risk increases by 4% per child. [24] This could be partly explained by the fact that having dependent children decreases physical activity in Western parents. [25]
Obesity is defined as having a body mass index (BMI) greater than or equal to 30 kg/m 2, and in June 2013 the American Medical Association classified it as a disease. [5] In countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), one child out of five is overweight or obese. [6]
Thrifty phenotype refers to the correlation between low birth weight of neonates and the increased risk of developing metabolic syndromes later in life, including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. [1] Although early life undernutrition is thought to be the key driving factor to the hypothesis, other environmental factors have been ...