Background & aims Overweight children and adolescents are more likely to evolve with high
cholesterol, be obese adults and develop cardiovascular disease. The objective of this study …

The goals of this study were to develop reference values for waist circumference (WC) in
Brazilian children between 6-10 years old and to evaluate the WC performance in predicting …

Objetivo: el propósito de este estudio fue determinar la asociación entre los hábitos
alimentarios de los niños (adherencia a la dieta mediterránea), los parámetros …

Background/objectives Few studies have examined the effects of the weight status at birth
and preschool age on the risk of elevated blood pressure (EBP) in early childhood, and …

Background Elevated body mass index (BMI) has been associated with cardiac changes,
such as higher epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) thickness. This fat has been identified as a …

Some studies have been conducted in order to assess the association between weight
status (assessed by body mass index) and socio-demographic factors. Nevertheless, only a …

Objective The purpose was to determine the association of lifestyle (ie, Mediterranean diet
[MD] adherence, physical activity [PA], screen time [ST]) and fitness with abdominal obesity …

La circunferencia de cintura abdominal (CC) se utiliza para evaluar obesidad infantil; para
su medición, se emplean diferentes lugares pero aún no se ha demostrado la similitud o …

Antecedentes: la exposición adecuada a las clases de Educación Física contribuye a un
estilo de vida más saludable entre los niños durante su vida. Objetivo: el objetivo principal …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the prevalence of general and abdominal
obesity among adolescents attending independent schools in Qatar. Design/methodology …