Zenno, Anna Nadler, Evan P
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Advances in experimental medicine and biology
Bariatric surgery is currently the most effective weight loss treatment of severe obesity and its associated comorbidities and is being increasingly used to treat children and adolescents with severe obesity, including those with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D). This review focuses on the conventional management of T2D in children and adolescents, comparison...
Madeira, Leticia Nabuco de Oliveira Bordallo, Maria Alice Neves Borges, Marcos Antonio Lopes, Agnaldo José Madeira, Isabel Rey Kuschnir, Fábio Chigres
ABSTRACT Objective: Asthma and obesity are prevalent and interrelated diseases. In the pediatric population, the effect of systemic inflammation associated to obesity, leading to inflammation of the airways, is currently controversial. Our aim was to compare inflammatory, clinical and spirometric patterns between children with asthma and obesity an...
Chaves, Felipe Galvão Batista Oliveira, Glauco Ferreira de Ribeiro, João Paulo Serafim, João Victor Cordeiro, Luiz Felipe Medeiros Alvares, Matheus Alves Cecchi, Marcelo Trindade Vasquez, Murilo Cordeiro Souza, Thaísy Bianka Dorta de Rullo, Vera Esteves Vagnozzi
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ABSTRACT Objective: Evaluate the effects of probiotics use, compared with placebo, in pediatric patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), using laboratorial and ultrasonographic parameters as outcomes. Methods: A systematic review of the literature was performed through MEDLINE and Lilacs databases. The articles selected were randomi...
Noronha, Gisele Almeida de Kale, Pauline Lorena Torres, Tania Zdenka Guillén de Vasconcelos, Jackeline Christiane Pinto ... Kuschnir, Maria Cristina Caetano Cavalcanti, Maria de Lourdes Tavares Costa, Antonio José Leal Szklo, Moyses
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Jornal de pediatria
To investigate the association between birth weight and excess weight among students aged 6-14 years, adjusted for life course confounding factors. Cross-sectional study with 6-14-year-old schoolchildren in 2010; 796 school children from two public schools. In addition, a sub-sample was selected using a case-cohort study approach. Sociodemographic,...
Perez, Numa P Stanford, Fatima Cody Williams, Kibileri Johnson, Veronica R Nadler, Evan Bowen-Jallow, Kanika
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American journal of surgery
Bottorff, Joan L. Huisken, Anne Hopkins, Michele Nesmith, Catherine
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundHealthy Together (HT) is family-centered program to support healthy eating and physical activity designed for implementation in community organizations serving families who may be experiencing vulnerabilities (e.g., related to low income, isolation, ethnicity, immigrant/refugee status, and/or Indigenous background). The purpose of this st...
Schroeder, Krista Day, Sophia Konty, Kevin Dumenci, Levent Lipman, Terri
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundNeighborhood poverty may increase childhood obesity risk. However, evidence for the neighborhood poverty-obesity relationship is limited. The purpose of this study was to examine how moving to a higher or lower poverty neighborhood impacts body mass index (BMI) z-score trajectories among youth, with the goal of informing policy change, in...
Roche, Johanna Corgosinho, Flavia Campos Isacco, Laurie Scheuermaier, Karine Pereira, Bruno Gillet, Valérie Moreira, Gustavo A Pradella-Hallinan, Marcia Tufik, Sergio de Mello, Marco Túlio
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Sleep medicine
Pediatric obesity and sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) are strongly associated, and both promote metabolic impairments. However, the effects of a lifestyle intervention on the overall metabolic syndrome (MetS) are unknown. The objectives were i) to evaluate the effects of a lifestyle intervention on cardiometabolic risk (CMR), assessed with a dicho...
Tester, June M. Rosas, Lisa G. Leung, Cindy W.
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Current Obesity Reports
Purpose of Review This review examines the current evidence about the ways in which food insecurity relates to obesity in children and adolescents, examining diet and diet-related behaviors, and taking into consideration the role of stress. Recent Findings While living with food insecurity impacts stress and diet-related behaviors in children and a...
Ng, Rowena Hodges, Elise
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Epilepsy & behavior : E&B
Childhood obesity has been associated with greater risks of psychopathology, including externalizing behaviors and social dysfunction. However, there has been limited research on the effect of obesity on psychosocial functioning among pediatric patients with epilepsy. Accordingly, this study aimed to examine the association between overweight/obesi...