Oliveira da Silva Kist, Mayara Luíza Hanzen Andrades, Gabriela Rupp Drumond Costa, Caroline Abud Crestani, Francielly Ramos Garcia, Pedro Celiny
Published in
Clinical nutrition ESPEN
Concomitantly to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), in the child population there was already another pandemic wave in progress: childhood obesity. Numerous studies in adults have been carried out and describe obesity as an independent risk and prognostic factor for the severity of COVID-19. This study aims to systematically review the litera...
Castro, Teresa G Gerritsen, Sarah Teixeira, Juliana A Pillai, Avinesh Marchioni, Dirce Maria L Grant, Cameron C Morton, Susan M B Wall, Clare R
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The British journal of nutrition
Using data from a nationally generalisable birth cohort, we aimed to: (i) describe the cohort's adherence to national evidence-based dietary guidelines using an Infant Feeding Index (IFI) and (ii) assess the IFI's convergent construct validity, by exploring associations with antenatal maternal socio-demographic and health behaviours and with child ...
Gadaire, Cecily B Armstrong, Laura Marie Levens, Sara M
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Eating and weight disorders : EWD
The study objective was to develop and validate a measure of parent perception of child weight-related risk, the Child Weight Risk Questionnaire (CWRQ), among a sample of US parents. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in a sample of 216 parents of 6- to 12-year-old children who were overweight. The CWRQ was used to assess parent beliefs about t...
Lourenção, Luiz Felipe de Paiva de Paula, Nara Cristina Cardoso, Maria Angélica Santos, Paula Ribeiro de Oliveira, Izabela Regina Cardoso Fonseca, Fernando Luiz Affonso da Veiga, Glaucia Luciano Alves, Beatriz da Costa Aguiar Graciano, Miriam Monteiro de Castro Pereira-Dourado, Stela Márcia
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Jornal de pediatria
The nutritional status resultant from dietary habits along with socioeconomic conditions and the school environment are directly related to the individual's health condition not only in their childhood but also throughout adulthood. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of socioeconomic factors on the anthropometric profile and to analy...
Rasella, Davide Richiardi, Lorenzo Brachowicz, Nicolai Jara, H. Xavier Hanson, Mark Boccia, Delia Richiardi, Matteo G. Pizzi, Costanza
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BMC Medicine
BackgroundWe developed an integrated model called Microsimulation for Income and Child Health (MICH) that provides a tool for analysing the prospective effects of fiscal policies on childhood health in European countries. The aim of this first MICH study is to evaluate the impact of alternative fiscal policies on childhood overweight and obesity in...
Wetherill, Marianna S Bourque, Emily E Taniguchi, Tori Love, Charlotte V Sisk, Margaret Jernigan, Valarie Blue Bird
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Journal of nutrition education and behavior
Fisher, Laura Dahal, Minakshi Hawkes, Sarah Puri, Mahesh Buse, Kent
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundMarketing of foods and non-alcoholic beverages high in saturated fats, trans-fatty acids, free sugars, or salt (“unhealthy foods”) to children is contributing to increasing child obesity. However, many countries have not implemented WHO recommendations to restrict marketing of unhealthy foods to children. We sought to understand the absen...
Lohse, Barbara Satter, Ellyn
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Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Currently developed parent feeding measures do not exclusively measure behaviors compatible with theoretical underpinnings of the Satter Division of Responsibility in Feeding for Children Aged 2 to 6 Years (sDOR.2-6y). A measure of adherence to sDOR.2-6y has been constructed and shown to have translational validity. To examine the construct validit...
Yeung, Andy Wai Kan
Published in
Public health nutrition
This study aimed to identify and meta-analyse the neuroimaging data and hence synthesise a brain map showing the neural correlates of watching food commercials. Published studies were retrieved and included into the analysis if they evaluated brain responses to food commercials with functional MRI and reported results based on whole-brain analysis ...
Liu, Xuanyi Liu, Xiaozhou Shi, Qiaoyu Fan, Xiuqin Qi, Kemin
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BMC Pediatrics
BackgroundTelomeres play a crucial role in cellular survival and its length is a predictor for onset of chronic non-communicable diseases. Studies on association between telomeres and obesity in children have brought discrepant results and the underlying mechanisms and influential factors are to be elucidated. This study aimed to investigate change...
