Sentences with phrase «examined overweight children»

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Researchers examined the data of 314 overweight and obese Latino children who were between 8 and 15 years old when they enrolled in the National Institutes of Health - funded Study of Latino Adolescents at Risk of Type 2 Diabetes (SOLAR) study, a 12 - year undertaking.

Leda Chatzi, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Crete, Greece, and coauthors analyzed data from 26,184 pregnant women and their children in European and U.S studies to examine associations with maternal fish intake and childhood growth and overweight / obesity.

The purpose of this work was to examine the effects of a multicomponent, School Nutrition Policy Initiative on the prevention of overweight (85.0 th to 94.9 th percentile) and obesity (> 95.0 th percentile) among children in grades 4 through 6 over a 2 - year period.

Bivariate correlations were examined between the CFPQ and attitude measures (i.e., concern about the child being overweight, concern about the child being underweight, and parental feelings of responsibility toward child feeding, Table IV).

Child weight status was also examined as «overweight» compared with «not overweight» based on an adiposity z score ≥ 85th percentile for age and sex.