Establishing normal values for pediatric nighttime sleep measured by actigraphy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

BC Galland, MA Short, P Terrill, G Rigney, JJ Haszard… - Sleep, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Despite the widespread use of actigraphy in pediatric sleep studies, there are
currently no age-related normative data. Objectives To systematically review the literature …

Diet and sleep physiology: public health and clinical implications

S Frank, K Gonzalez, L Lee-Ang, MC Young… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
This mini-review examines the complex relationship between diet and sleep and explores
the clinical and public health implications of the current evidence. Dietary quality and intake …

[HTML][HTML] Sleep, nutrition, and physical activity interventions to prevent obesity in infancy: follow-up of the Prevention of Overweight in Infancy (POI) randomized …

RW Taylor, AR Gray, ALM Heath, BC Galland… - The American journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
ABSTRACT Background Our Prevention of Overweight in Infancy (POI) study suggested that
a brief sleep intervention in infancy reduced the risk of obesity at age 2 y. In contrast, we …

Interventions commenced by early infancy to prevent childhood obesity—the EPOCH collaboration: an individual participant data prospective meta‐analysis of four …

LM Askie, D Espinoza, A Martin, LA Daniels… - Pediatric …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Childhood obesity is a significant global problem. Childhood obesity prevention
interventions may be more effective when started very early in life before metabolic and …

Predicting childhood obesity using electronic health records and publicly available data

R Hammond, R Athanasiadou, S Curado… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background Because of the strong link between childhood obesity and adulthood obesity
comorbidities, and the difficulty in decreasing body mass index (BMI) later in life, effective …

Long-term outcomes (2 and 3.5 years post-intervention) of the INFANT early childhood intervention to improve health behaviors and reduce obesity: cluster …

KD Hesketh, J Salmon, SA McNaughton… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Background The few health behavior interventions commencing in infancy have shown
promising effects. Greater insight into their longer-term benefits is required. This study aimed …

Support for healthy breastfeeding mothers with healthy term babies

A Gavine, SC Shinwell, P Buchanan… - Cochrane Database …, 2022 - cochranelibrary.com
Background There is extensive evidence of important health risks for infants and mothers
related to not breastfeeding. In 2003, the World Health Organization recommended that …

The Prevention of Childhood Obesity

WH Dietz, LA Baur - Clinical Obesity in Adults and Children, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Undernutrition has had a much more significant impact than obesity on the health of children
and adolescents globally. The high prevalence of child and adolescent obesity in so many …

Contemporary approaches to the prevention and management of paediatric obesity: an Australian focus

S Mihrshahi, ML Gow, LA Baur - Medical Journal of Australia, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Of the 34 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and
Development, obesity prevalence is highest in the United States, with Australia ranking fifth …

Supporting healthy lifestyle behaviours in families attending community playgroups: parents' perceptions of facilitators and barriers

AB Fuller, RA Byrne, RK Golley, SG Trost - BMC Public Health, 2019 - Springer
Background Establishing healthy nutrition, activity, and sleep behaviours early in life is a key
strategy in childhood obesity prevention. Parents are the primary influence on the …