Obesity Status and Physical Activity Level in Children and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Pilot Study

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Global prevalence of obesity, overweight and underweight in children, adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorder, attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

“…From 12,100 articles retrieved, 110 (62 on ASD, 43 on ADHD and 5 on both) were eligible for inclusion (Tables S2 and S3). After excluding multiple articles on duplicate investigations 31–41 and studies that mixed obesity and overweight data, 42–45 54 studies on ASD 46–99 and 46 studies on ADHD 91–94,99–140 were separately included for quantitative analysis.…”

Implementation of Wearable Sensing Technology for Movement: Pushing Forward into the Routine Physical Rehabilitation Care Field

“…Wearable devices have been used to research the behavior of children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the classroom [ 107 ]. In autism spectrum disorder research, wearable devices have been used to study sleep patterns, stereotyped behaviors, and metabolic disease risk [ 108 , 109 , 110 , 111 , 112 , 113 , 114 ]. Researchers have also used wearables to identify infants with developmental delays and infants with movement disorders associated with cerebral palsy [ 115 , 116 ] and children with ADHD [ 105 ].…”

Exploring Self-Reported Eating Disorder Symptoms in Autistic Men

“…This may be particularly relevant for autistic people as, consistent with this present study, previous literature suggests that autistic people are more likely to have a BMI defined as overweight or obese. This has lead to suggestions that autism may be associated with eating behaviours relating to excessive energy intake 6,[20][21][22] . At present autism has been most explored in the ED literature from the perspective of co-occurring AN in women, an ED associated with low weight and dietary restriction.…”