"Obese adolescents" refers to teenagers who are significantly overweight or have excess body fat.
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Children who are obese at age six are thought more likely than not to stay that way, and 75 to 80 percent
of obese adolescents may remain obese as adults.
Nandalike K, Agarwal C, Strauss T, Coupey SM, Isasi CR, Sin S, Arens R. Sleep and cardiometabolic function in
obese adolescent girls with polycystic ovary syndrome.
Weight Loss Trajectories and Adverse Childhood Experience among
Obese Adolescents with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.
Researchers measured an epigenetic marker, DNA methylation levels, in
obese adolescents from a blood sample at baseline and again at the end of the 10 - week program.
This is an article from 1998 comparing the effects of a high - protein, low carb, low - fat ketogenic diet in treating
morbidly obese adolescents (avg wt of 147.
The impact of metformin, oral contraceptives and lifestyle modification, on polycystic ovary syndrome in
obese adolescent women in two randowmized, placebo - controlled clinical trials.
In her study, 20 overweight or
obese adolescent females ages 18 - 20 either skipped breakfast, consumed a high - protein breakfast consisting of eggs and lean beef, or ate a normal - protein breakfast of ready - to - eat cereal.
Overweight or
obese adolescents who were engaged in aerobic exercise tend to feel better about themselves, even in the absence of weight loss.
Adolescents who were overweight had significantly worse self - reported health (odds ratio [OR]: 2.17; 95 % confidence interval [CI]: 1.34 — 3.51), as
did obese adolescents (OR: 4.49; 95 % CI: 2.87 — 7.03).
Daily hassles and emotional eating in
obese adolescents under restricted dietary conditions — the role of ruminative thinking
[3] Lass N, Kleber M, Winkel K, et al. «Effect of Lifestyle Intervention on Features of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, Metabolic Syndrome, and Intima - Media Thickness in
Obese Adolescent Girls.»
In fact, a study found that 61 percent
of obese adolescents in the United States are at an increased risk for heart disease due to high cholesterol, hypertension, or diabetes (4).
However, a coconut oil - rich meal does not enhance thermogenesis compared to corn oil in a randomized trial
in obese adolescents.
«Overweight and
obese adolescents have a 70 percent chance of becoming obese adults,» he says.
Heidi B. IglayReger, PhD, and colleagues from the University of Michigan and Baylor University studied 37
obese adolescents (11 - 17 years of age).
In a new study scheduled for publication in The Journal of Pediatrics, researchers found that cardiometabolic risk in
obese adolescents may be predicted by typical sleep patterns.
However, according to Dr. IglayReger, «The strong association between sleep duration and cardiometabolic risk score independent of the effects of body composition and physical activity suggest a potential influence of sleep duration on cardiometabolic health in
obese adolescents.»
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.
Here, we describe five putative epigenetic biomarkers that could help to predict the response to a weight loss intervention in
obese adolescents.»
Symposia VI: Cardiovascular Benefits of Exercise: Insights from Human Studies The session will cover improving exercise tolerance in heart failure, reversal of impaired cardiac function in
obese adolescents, the effect of exercise on left ventricular compliance and diastolic function in the elderly and attenuating premature cardiovascular aging in Type 2 diabetes through exercise.
The conclusion was: «
obese adolescents have a poorer mineral status (especially zinc) than adolescents of normal weight, which can contribute to insulin resistance».
Obese adolescents, who could have increased risk for heart disease, diabetes, and other chronic diseases linked to inflammation, also showed some pretty DRAMATIC results.
Morbidities experienced by overweight /
obese adolescents and associations between morbidities and timing of overweight / obesity were examined.
For the survey data, it was conducted an interview of the family life cycle with the preparation of a genogram, a Multifamily Group, a group with children, a group of parents of obese children and application of Rorschach test in
obese adolescents, adolescents with anorexia nervosa and adolescents with bulimia nervosa.