The metabolic syndrome, by definition, is not a disease but is a clustering of individual
metabolic risk factors including abdominal obesity, hyperglycemia, hypertriglyceridemia …

Background Prevention of childhood obesity is an international public health priority given
the significant impact of obesity on acute and chronic diseases, general health, development …

Childhood obesity has emerged as an important public health problem in the United States
and other countries in the world. Currently 1 in 3 children in the United States is afflicted with …

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified thousands of variants associated
with complex traits, but their biological interpretation often remains unclear. Most of these …

Rapidly changing dietary practices and a sedentary lifestyle have led to increasing
prevalence of childhood obesity (5–19 yr) in developing countries recently: 41.8% in Mexico …

Obesity research is advancing swiftly, but the increase in obesity prevalence is faster. Over
the past three decades, researchers have found that biopsychosocial factors determine …

Obesity and its associated comorbidities have emerged as a major health problem
garnering interests from both public health agencies and mainstream media consumers …

Although previous systematic reviews considered the relationship between socioeconomic
status and obesity, almost 200 peer‐reviewed articles have been published since the last …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: An estimate of the lifetime medical costs of an obese
child provides a benchmark of the potential per capita savings that could accrue from …

Objective To determine risk factors for childhood overweight that can be identified during the
first year of life to facilitate early identification and targeted intervention. Design Systematic …