Overweight/obesity continues to increase in children and adolescents, and annual obesity-
related hospital costs in 6–17 yr olds have reached $127 million per year. Overweight …

Body composition exhibits marked variations across the early human lifetime. The precise
physiological mechanisms that drive such developmental adaptations are difficult to …

OBJECTIVE: To describe and provide estimates of the distribution of waist circumference
(WC) according to percentiles in African-, European-, and Mexican-American children, and …

Background: A central fat pattern has adverse health implications in both children and
adults. Because adiposity tracks from childhood into adulthood, the ability of simple …

Background Epidemiological studies suggest that obesity-induced atherosclerosis may start
in childhood, but this process has never been demonstrated. We looked for arterial changes …

Background: Little is known about how the intensity of exercise influences cardiovascular
fitness and body composition, especially in obese adolescents. Objective: Our goal was to …

Objective: Intra‐abdominal fat has been identified as being the most clinically relevant type
of fat in humans. Therefore, an assessment of body‐fat distribution could possibly identify …

There is a remarkable increase in the prevalence of children with excess body fat in the
United States—an epidemic of obesity. The trend is reflected in data derived from many …

Context Pediatric studies have shown that aerobic exercise reduces metabolic risk, but dose-
response information is not available. Objectives To test the effect of different doses of …

The House of Commons Select Committee on obesity, and two expert groups in the USA,
recommend that the body mass index (BMI) of every school child should be measured each …