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Obesity can affect your teen’s health in a number of ways. These include: High blood pressure and high cholesterol. These are risk factors for heart disease. Diabetes. Obesity is the major cause of type 2 diabetes. It can cause resistance to insulin, the hormone that controls blood sugar.
3 Μαρ 2022 · In this Review, we describe current knowledge on the epidemiology and causes of child and adolescent obesity, considerations for assessment, and current management approaches.
19 Ιουλ 2023 · Obesity during adolescence (10 to 19 years of age) is associated with health consequences that include prediabetes and type 2 diabetes, 1 nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, 2 dyslipidemia, 3...
25 Σεπ 2024 · Obesity in children has increased in recent decades. Causes are multi-factorial including biological, genetic disposition, behavioural and environmental influences. Calculating body mass index (BMI) is the most widely accepted method of screening for obesity in children.
1 Σεπ 2021 · The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has described childhood obesity as an ongoing serious problem in the United States (US), putting adolescents at a greater risk for serious health conditions. 1 The prevalence of adolescent obesity has quadrupled in the US in the last 30 years. 2 As a result of childhood obesity alone, the US h...
16 Νοε 2022 · Childhood obesity is a serious medical condition that affects children and adolescents. It's particularly troubling because the extra pounds often start children on the path to health problems that were once considered adult problems — diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
In 2017-2020, 19.7% of US children and adolescents aged 2 to 19 years had obesity (BMI ≥95th percentile for age and sex), 2 and the rate of BMI increase nearly doubled during the first 9 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. 3 Obesity is associated with significant social, psychological, and medical burdens among children, as well as increased ...
