2005
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2005.05.039
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Health-Related Quality of Life in Overweight and Nonoverweight Black and White Adolescents

Abstract: According to adolescent and parent reports, overweight is associated with poorer QOL in adolescence, regardless of race; however, compared with overweight white adolescents, blacks report less impairment in QOL. Future research is required to determine whether differences in QOL are predictive of treatment success.

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“…Or it could be that at this Similarly, Schwimmer and colleagues found that overweight children were five times more likely to report low QoL scores when compared to healthy weight children [11]. Several other studies have similarly shown that overweight or obese children and adolescents report lower QoL scores in at least some if not all dimensions compared to healthy weight subjects [13,35,36,37,38 ].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…Or it could be that at this Similarly, Schwimmer and colleagues found that overweight children were five times more likely to report low QoL scores when compared to healthy weight children [11]. Several other studies have similarly shown that overweight or obese children and adolescents report lower QoL scores in at least some if not all dimensions compared to healthy weight subjects [13,35,36,37,38 ].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 95%
“…Of the 22 studies located, 12 studies report significant inverse relationships between overall HRQOL and weight status in both community and treatment-seeking samples (Table 1), either using dichotomized weight categories as predictors, 18,23,24 or BMI as a continuous predictor. 6,12,14,15,19,[24][25][26][27] Our pooled analyses indicate that there is an inverse linear relationship between HRQOL (PedsQL total score) and BMI for both pediatric self-report (r ¼ À0.7, P ¼ 0.008, n ¼ 13) and parent proxy-report (r ¼ À0.77, P ¼ 0.003, n ¼ 12) (Figure 3). In contrast, three smaller cross-sectional studies from the United States of America did not find a significant inverse relationship between BMI (as a continuous predictor) and overall HRQOL.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In contrast, other studies have found no significant gender-effects on HRQOL. 11,13,25,30 Age. Two studies report finding no age-effects on HRQOL, 11,28 whereas other research has identified ageeffects.…”
Section: Treatment-seeking Versus Community Samplesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…134 Recent research examining the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of obese youth has documented significant impairments in daily functioning across physical, social, emotional and school domains. 135,136 Further, when HRQOL was examined across the weight spectrum, results suggested that HRQOL decreased with increasing weight. 137,138 We recently reported baseline psychosocial status of a small but unique population of extremely obese adolescents referred by their physician for consideration of bariatric surgery.…”
Section: Psychosocial Implications Of Obesity In Children and Adolescmentioning
confidence: 99%