Obese Adolescents with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Have Hippocampal and Frontal Lobe Volume Reductions
Weight Loss Trajectories and Adverse Childhood Experience among
Obese Adolescents with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
Not exact matches
But a new study finds that poor
adolescents who live in communities
with more social cohesiveness and control get some measure of protection; they're less likely to smoke and be
obese as
adolescents.
Although it is usually associated
with alcoholism, it is increasingly diagnosed in individuals who consume little to no alcohol, especially those who are overweight or
obese, including
adolescents and children.
So - called normal weight is no longer normal,
with two - thirds of adults and one third of children and
adolescents now classified as overweight or
obese.
Obese adolescent girls, Stice found, showed greater activation compared
with their lean peers in regions of the brain that encode the sensory experience of eating food — the so - called gustatory cortex and the somatosensory regions, archipelagoes of neurons that reach across different structures in the brain.
In the past 30 years, obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in
adolescents,
with more than one - third of children and
adolescents found to be overweight or
obese in 2012, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
While increasing body mass index (BMI), a measure of obesity, was associated
with increased risk for high blood pressure in all four examined ethnic groups, the prevalence of high blood pressure was almost 6 times higher among
obese Hispanic
adolescents compared to normal weight Hispanics.
In addition, improvement in immunologic responses has been demonstrated
with zinc treatment in
obese children and
adolescents (Chandra and Kutty 1980).
PATIENTS AND METHODS: Participants in the study were 111 parent - child dyads
with overweight and
obese children /
adolescents (BMI mean: 29.07 [SD: 4.7][range: 21.4 — 44.9]; BMI SD score mean: 2.43 [SD: 0.44][range: 1.31 — 3.54]-RRB- aged between 7 and 15 years.