Objective: To examine the changes in children’s weight-for-height at six monthly intervals between birth and three years old (3yo) from different counties across Chile and to determine if children had overweight or ...

Overweight and childhood obesity have become a global health problem. As the incidence and severity of overweight and obesity in children continue to rise, determining the physio-logical effects and functional consequences ...

OBJECTIVE: To assess the longitudinal effect of double burden of malnutrition (DBM) on the risk of developing child and adolescent overweight or obesity. METHODS: Analysis of the Peruvian Young Lives Study, younger cohort: ...

Although numerous studies have analyzed overweight and obesity among schoolchildren from various Brazilian regions, the data relative to the state of Espirito Santo (ES) remains scarce. Considering the information presented, ...

Overweight and obesity are considered a public health problem, as they are related to the risk of various diseases, and also to the risk of increased morbidity and mortality. The main objective of this work was to apply ...

Overweight and obesity prevalence among children and adolescents in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) rose steeply from 2·5% to 17·3% between 1975 and 2016.1, 2 By 2020, 39 million children younger than 5 ...