Search Tag: childhood obesity

Cardiology Management

Soaring-childhood-obesity-in-china

2016 03 May

China is paying the price of adopting a western lifestyle with soaring childhood obesity, shows a   29 year study in nearly 28 000 children and adolescents published today in the   European Journal of Preventive Cardiology .1   Less than 1% of children and adolescents were obese in 1985 compared to 17% of boys and 9% of girls in 2014. The...Read more

Cardiology Management

Esc-2014-childhood-obesity-and-hypertension

2014 03 Sep

According to a new study from Germany discussed in a Moderated Poster session at the ESC Congress 2014 in Barcelona, obese youngsters as defined by adiposity have nearly a six-fold greater risk of hypertension as compared to those of normal weight.  The new study used body fat distribution to assess the impact of childhood body weight. 22,051...Read more