Predicting Obesity in Young Adulthood from Childhood and Parental Obesity

The prevalence of obesity has increased in both children and adults. 1 , 2 The medical illnesses associated with obesity 3 usually occur in adulthood, but adults rarely achieve sustained weight loss. 4 Therefore, prevention of obesity in childhood and effective treatment of overweight children are e...

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Vydáno v:The New England journal of medicine Ročník 337; číslo 13; s. 869 - 873
Hlavní autoři: Whitaker, Robert C, Wright, Jeffrey A, Pepe, Margaret S, Seidel, Kristy D, Dietz, William H
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Boston, MA Massachusetts Medical Society 25.09.1997
Témata:
Adolescent
Adult
Age
Age Factors
Biological and medical sciences
Body Mass Index
Child
Child, Preschool
Cohort Studies
Female
Health maintenance organizations
HMOs
Humans
Infant
Male
Medical sciences
Metabolic diseases
Obesity
Obesity - etiology
Obesity - genetics
Odds Ratio
Parents
Parents & parenting
Retrospective Studies
Risk Factors
Weight control
Human
Obesity
Parent
Nutrition disorder
Young adult
Predictive factor
Child
Nutritional status
ISSN:0028-4793, 1533-4406
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Shrnutí:The prevalence of obesity has increased in both children and adults. 1 , 2 The medical illnesses associated with obesity 3 usually occur in adulthood, but adults rarely achieve sustained weight loss. 4 Therefore, prevention of obesity in childhood and effective treatment of overweight children are essential. Although several studies have tracked fatness from childhood to adulthood, 5 – 11 only one study contained data on subjects' height and weight throughout childhood. 11 Whether parental obesity alters the probability that a child will become an obese adult is not known. The purpose of this study was to determine the probability of obesity in young adulthood in relation . . .
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ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJM199709253371301