The prevalence of childhood obesity has increased over the last fifty years by approximately
5% per decade, and approximately a quarter of all children are now either overweight or …

Psychiatric illness in the paediatric population is increasing and the weight effect of
medications for these problems is often unclear. A comprehensive literature search was …

Maternal metabolic homeostasis exerts long-term effects on the offspring's health outcomes.
Here, we demonstrate that maternal high-fat diet (HFD) feeding during lactation predisposes …

The dysregulation of the insulin-glucose axis represents the crucial event in insulin
resistance syndrome. Insulin resistance increases atherogenesis and atherosclerotic plaque …

The last 50 years have seen the emergence of childhood obesity as a major public health
concern and a condition now regularly encountered in routine general paediatric practice …

Results: The presence of steatosis was statistically associated with higher mean (±SE) BMI
percentiles (72nd±5.8 vs 58th±3.5) percentile; F (1,101)= 4.2, P= 0.04. Nonresponders to …

El sobrepeso y la obesidad se han incrementado de manera alarmante en los países
desarrollados, llegando a considerarse el mayor problema para la salud pública del siglo …

Introdução: A obesidade é uma doença de prevalência crescente e que, atualmente,
assume caráter epidemiológico como principal problema de saúde pública na sociedade …

The aim of the present work was to study the association between different anthropometric
parameters and insulin resistance (IR) in Spanish schoolchildren without a previous …

Background The Care Of Childhood Obesity (COCO) clinic at the Bristol Royal Hospital for
Children (BRHC) uses a multidisciplinary approach comprising a consultant, dietitian, and …