Risk factors associate with overweight and obesity in adolescents
<strong>Background</strong>: Overweight and obesity have high prevalence among children and adolescent in industrialized countries and, since the 90´s, there is also an increase in developing counties. <strong><br />Objective</strong>: To determine the relevant risk fac...
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| author | Carmen Emilia Guerra Cabrera Jesús Vila Díaz Juan José Apolinaire Pennini Ailyn del Carmen Cabrera Romero Inti Santana Carballosa Pilar Maritza Almaguer Sabina |
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| description | <strong>Background</strong>: Overweight and obesity have high prevalence among children and adolescent in industrialized countries and, since the 90´s, there is also an increase in developing counties. <strong><br />Objective</strong>: To determine the relevant risk factors associated with overweight in children. <br /><strong>Methods</strong>: We designed a case-control, analytical, observational, retrospective research including 50 school age adolescents assessed after their body mass index as obese and overweight (cases) and 50 adolescents with normal weight (controls), between the ages of 10 and 12 years from four primary schools belonging to Health Area III of Cienfuegos municipality. The studied variables were: kind of feeding during the first months, hours of physical activity, sport practice, hours of sedentary activity, personal pathological history, kind of food and consumption frequency. <br /><strong>Results</strong>: The overweight adolescents presented higher incidence of mixed kinds of feeding during the first months, little daily physical activity, little sport practice, high average of daily hours in front of the TV or PC, higher incidence of family history of obesity and nutritional patter based on cereals, milk, sugar, beans, and low consumption of fruits, fish and vegetables. <strong><br />Conclusion</strong>: We confirmed the hypothesis that children with more incidences of the selected risk factors are more likely to develop overweight and obesity. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a75645c82c864bae8bbbef37289fb2752025-01-30T21:28:41ZspaCentro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. CienfuegosMedisur1727-897X2009-05-017292100486Risk factors associate with overweight and obesity in adolescentsCarmen Emilia Guerra Cabrera0Jesús Vila Díaz1Juan José Apolinaire Pennini2Ailyn del Carmen Cabrera Romero3Inti Santana Carballosa4Pilar Maritza Almaguer Sabina5Policlínico “Octavio de la Concepción y de la Pedraja”, Cienfuegos.Hospital Pediátrico Universitario “Paquito González Cueto”. Cienfuegos.Facultad de Ciencias Médicas “Raúl Dorticós Torrado”. CienfuegosHospital Militar. Villa ClaraHospital Universitario “Dr. Gustavo Aldereguía Lima”Policlínico “Octavio de la Concepción y de la Pedraja”.<strong>Background</strong>: Overweight and obesity have high prevalence among children and adolescent in industrialized countries and, since the 90´s, there is also an increase in developing counties. <strong><br />Objective</strong>: To determine the relevant risk factors associated with overweight in children. <br /><strong>Methods</strong>: We designed a case-control, analytical, observational, retrospective research including 50 school age adolescents assessed after their body mass index as obese and overweight (cases) and 50 adolescents with normal weight (controls), between the ages of 10 and 12 years from four primary schools belonging to Health Area III of Cienfuegos municipality. The studied variables were: kind of feeding during the first months, hours of physical activity, sport practice, hours of sedentary activity, personal pathological history, kind of food and consumption frequency. <br /><strong>Results</strong>: The overweight adolescents presented higher incidence of mixed kinds of feeding during the first months, little daily physical activity, little sport practice, high average of daily hours in front of the TV or PC, higher incidence of family history of obesity and nutritional patter based on cereals, milk, sugar, beans, and low consumption of fruits, fish and vegetables. <strong><br />Conclusion</strong>: We confirmed the hypothesis that children with more incidences of the selected risk factors are more likely to develop overweight and obesity.http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/632factores de riesgoobesidadsobrepesoadolescencia |
| spellingShingle | Carmen Emilia Guerra Cabrera Jesús Vila Díaz Juan José Apolinaire Pennini Ailyn del Carmen Cabrera Romero Inti Santana Carballosa Pilar Maritza Almaguer Sabina Risk factors associate with overweight and obesity in adolescents Medisur factores de riesgo obesidad sobrepeso adolescencia |
| title | Risk factors associate with overweight and obesity in adolescents |
| title_full | Risk factors associate with overweight and obesity in adolescents |
| title_fullStr | Risk factors associate with overweight and obesity in adolescents |
| title_full_unstemmed | Risk factors associate with overweight and obesity in adolescents |
| title_short | Risk factors associate with overweight and obesity in adolescents |
| title_sort | risk factors associate with overweight and obesity in adolescents |
| topic | factores de riesgo obesidad sobrepeso adolescencia |
| url | http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/632 |
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