Association Between Insufficiently Physically Active and the Prevalence of Obesity in the United States

Brock, David W.; Thomas, Olivia; Cowan, C. D.; Allison, David B.; Gaesser, Glenn A.; Hunter, Gary R.

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“…44 This might be due to the geographical location from which the sample was recruited, as Colorado residents show higher levels of physical exercise and lower overweight/ obesity rates. 92 In summary, infants with less attention span (boys), as well as greater soothability or more negative food reaction (girls), showed greater increases in standardized weight and were more likely to be overweight/obese at the age of 6 years. Future research needs to replicate these findings and identify underlying behavioral mechanisms.…”

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Infant temperament and eating style predict change in standardized weight status and obesity risk at 6 years of age

Faith

Hittner

2010

Int J Obes

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Objective: Little research has addressed the relationships among infant temperament, eating styles and obesity risk. To address this gap, we tested whether infant temperament and eating patterns at the age of 1 year are associated with a greater increase in standardized weight status, and greater obesity risk at 6 years of age. Design: A secondary, prospective analysis of the Colorado Adoption Study was conducted. The main predictor variables were infant temperament (that is, emotionality, activity, attention span-persistence, reaction to food and soothability) and eating domains (that is, reactivity to food, predictable appetite and distractability at mealtime) at the age of 1 year, along with the body mass index (BMI) of biological mothers. The outcome measures were child weight and height (length) assessed at ages 1 through 6 years, from which weight-for-length and BMI were computed along with the standardized indexes (z-scores) and percentiles. Overweight/obesity status was computed at each year as well. Participants: A primarily White sample of 262 boys and 225 girls, assessed at ages 1 through 6 years, along with their mothers. Results: Among boys, greater attention span-persistence was associated with reduced standardized weight status gain (b ¼ À0.15, Po0.05) and reduced obesity risk (odds ratio (OR) ¼ 0.46, P ¼ 0.06). Among girls, greater soothability and negative reaction to food were associated with greater standardized weight status gain (b ¼ 0.19, Po0.01; and b ¼ 0.16, Po0.05, respectively) and increased obesity risk (OR ¼ 3.72, P ¼ 0.03; and OR ¼ 2.81, P ¼ 0.08, respectively). Biological mothers' obesity status predicted obesity risk in boys (OR ¼ 3.07, P ¼ 0.01) and girls (OR ¼ 5.94, P ¼ 0.03). Conclusions: Male infants with less attention span, and female infants with greater soothability or a more negative food reaction, showed greater increases in standardized weight and were more likely to be overweight/obese at the age of 6 years. The role of infant temperament in pediatric obesity onset warrants greater research.

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Infant temperament and eating style predict change in standardized weight status and obesity risk at 6 years of age

Faith

Hittner

2010

Int J Obes

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“…In Europe, the prevalence of obesity [body mass index (BMI) ≥30.0 kg/m 2 ] in men ranges from 4.0% to 28.3% and in women from 6.2% to 36.5% (Berghöfer et al, 2008). In the United States, the prevalence ranges from 17.8% to 30.9% (Brock et al, 2009). The prevalence among adult women is 16.7% in Selangor, Malaysia (Sidik and Rampal, 2009).…”

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Body mass index, waist circumference, and cardiometabolic risk factors in young and middle-aged Chinese women

Xiao

Song

Zhao

et al. 2010

J. Zhejiang Univ. Sci. B

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Abstract:Objective: To assess the associations between body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and cardiometabolic risk factors in young and middle-aged Chinese women. Methods: A total of 3011 women (1938 young women, 1073 middle-aged women), who visited our health care center for a related health checkup, were eligible for study. BMI and WC were measured. The subjects were divided into normal and overweight/obesity groups based on BMI, and normal and abdominal obesity groups based on WC. Cardiometabolic variables included triglyceride (TG), high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), fasting blood glucose (FBG), homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR), and blood pressure (BP). Results: The prevalence of overweight/obesity was significantly higher in middle-aged women (32.4%) than in young women (12.0%). The prevalence of abdominal obesity was also higher in middle-aged women (60.3%) than in young women (36.2%). There were significant differences in the comparison of all related cardiometabolic variables between different BMI (or WC) categories in young and middleaged women groups, respectively. After adjustment for age, partial correlation analysis indicated that both BMI and WC were correlated significantly with all related cardiometabolic variables. After adjustment for age and WC, although the correlation coefficient r′ was attenuated, BMI was still correlated significantly with all related cardiometabolic variables in young and middle-aged women. After adjustment for age and BMI, partial correlation analysis showed that WC was correlated significantly with TG, FBG, HOMA-IR, and HDL-C in young women and significantly with TG, HOMA-IR, and HDL-C in middle-aged women. Conclusions: The prevalence of overweight/obesity and abdominal obesity was high in Chinese young and middle-aged women. BMI was a better predictor of cardiovascular disease and diabetes than WC in young and middle-aged women, and moreover, measurement of both WC and BMI may be a better predictor of cardiovascular disease and diabetes mellitus than BMI or WC alone.

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“…As very well known, activity has a significant direct influence to body weight and especially to adequate body mass maintainance, but is important also by itself as a prevention regarding the development of D2 (Defay, 2001;Brock, 2009). In adult population to the group of high active are classified those, who are active 30 minutes or more on at least five days a week, medium active are those, who are active 30 minutes or more 1 to 4 days a week, other are low active.…”

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“…It is also very well known that active life style has very good influence also to body mass and in contrary people who are obese are inclined to inactivity, but there is practically no quantitative data available regarding the statistical correlation on the population level among these two variables. The interesting exception represents the paper of Brock (Brock et al, 2009), where the association between insufficiently physically active and the prevalence of obesity is described for the USA in the form of linear regression model. Testing this description in comparison to information from Table 2 and presented activity response showed that it is expected the prevalence of obesity to be slightly lower in EU countries.…”

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“…The literature dealing with different aspects of diabetes has become enormous and very heterogeneous even in the case when searching is limited to mathematical modelling and simulation processes of this disease. Some of them are describing glucose-insulin dynamics Makroglou et al, 2006;Shianga & Kandeelc 2010), some represent epidemiological descriptions of this non communicable disease (Boutayeb et al, 2004;Atanasijević-Kunc et al, 2008b), while others describe disease development (Eddy & Schlessinger, 2003a;2003b;Kristöfel, et al, 2007) or the relations to risk factors which are in correlation with diabetes development (Brock et al, 2009;MMWR 2004;Atanasijević-Kunc et al, 2008c). Diabetes can represent by itself or even more intense in combination with other possible chronic diseases (dislipidemia, hypertension) or life style (smoking, alcohol consumption, inactivity) the risk for developing different cardiovascular diseases (Levenson et al, 2002;Atanasijević-Kunc et al, 2008c;.…”

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Burden of Diabetes Type 2 Through Modelling and Simulation

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2011

Topics in the Prevention, Treatment and Complications of Type 2 Diabetes

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Association Between Insufficiently Physically Active and the Prevalence of Obesity in the United States

Abstract: Background-Numerous public health organizations have adopted national physical activity recommendations. Despite these recommendations, over half of the US population does not meet the minimum recommendation for physical activity, with large variations across individual US states.

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Infant temperament and eating style predict change in standardized weight status and obesity risk at 6 years of age

Infant temperament and eating style predict change in standardized weight status and obesity risk at 6 years of age

Body mass index, waist circumference, and cardiometabolic risk factors in young and middle-aged Chinese women

Burden of Diabetes Type 2 Through Modelling and Simulation

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