Sentences with phrase «of pediatric obesity»

Programs such as CDC's Childhood Obesity Demonstration Project and the Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance System may produce recommendations that could stimulate greater attention to the prevention and treatment of pediatric obesity.

The press has frequently focused on infectious disease epidemics such as H1N1 influenza and HIV, but rarely discusses the growing problem of pediatric obesity.

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The Whole Child health report brings together a comprehensive picture of the effects to mind, body and spirit of the societal shift toward growing up indoors, including not only epidemic childhood obesity but also precipitously rising rates of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), childhood diabetes, and pediatric depression.

«I would rather write a prescription for safe, outdoor play for my pediatric patients than see them five years later with depression, anxiety and obesity,» says Wendy Kohatsu, MD, with Santa Rosa Family Medicine and assistant clinical professor at the University of California in San Francisco.

I just found your blog via the local parents email list (3000 parents in silicon valley) and shared it with my POIG (pediatric obesity interest group) email list of MDs, med students, PhDs, RDs and some community members in the SF Bay Area.

Excluding type 2 diabetes (because of insufficient data), we conducted a cost analysis for all pediatric diseases for which the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reported risk ratios that favored breastfeeding: necrotizing enterocolitis, otitis media, gastroenteritis, hospitalization for lower respiratory tract infections, atopic dermatitis, sudden infant death syndrome, childhood asthma, childhood leukemia, type 1 diabetes mellitus, and childhood obesity.

While there is pediatric expert consensus and recognition that early obesity prevention is a public health concern, AAP experts wanted to know what parents, as day - to - day experts of their children, thought about early obesity prevention.

The Healthy Active Living for Families: Right From the Start program (HALF) is a project of the American Academy of Pediatrics to address early childhood obesity prevention that integrates the parent perspective and evidence - informed pediatric health guidance.

There is good news: obesity doesn't seem to lessen the effectiveness of corticosteroid inhalers, the standard treatment to ease asthma symptoms such as shortness of breath, coughing and chest pain, said Jason Lang, M.D., a pediatric lung specialist and director of the Duke Children's Pulmonary Function Laboratory, who led the study.

A key element in curbing this growing problem is a better understanding of how medical providers can help treat and manage pediatric obesity as p...

Brenner FIT, a pediatric obesity program of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center» sBrenner Children's Hospital, was awarded a two - year grant by the department store chain Kohl's, through its Kohl's Cares program, to continue its ongoing support of children's health and education initiatives in the local community.

The Endocrine Society supports the implementation of policies that sustain a prevention care team that includes medical personnel, family, schools, and the community, to combat pediatric obesity.

As a clinical leader in the pediatric obesity initiative, she is taking the «bull by the horns», and using the new science of obesity, redesigning the weight loss and health promotion protocol to benefit all children.»

She recently served as a consultant on a Department of Defense - funded project to create an integrated system of hospital and primary care - based pediatric obesity care.

A scoping review of epidemiologic risk factors for pediatric obesity: Implications for future childhood obesity and dental caries prevention research.

Although unexpected, these findings are consistent with the intervention study by Stein et al29 in which fathers» but not mothers» parenting (warmth and support) predicted better maintenance of weight loss after a behavioral parenting intervention for pediatric obesity.

Jandasek's research interests include health disparities, pediatric asthma and obesity, adolescent and young adult development and the transition of responsibility for illness management, qualitative methods, and intervention development.

During the past 12 years Dr. Hadley has worked with a variety of pediatric patients and their families, including those affected by cancer, HIV, feeding disorders, and obesity.

It appears that a home visiting program, targeted at at - risk families, may help to reduce the occurrence of obesity in the pediatric population.

We are exploring new insights into the genetic roots of autism; finding pediatric bio-behavioral markers of bipolar disorder; creating effective therapies for OCD; devising effective prevention strategies for adolescent sexual risk behaviors and obesity; and much more.

Healthy Homes / Healthy Kids: A randomized trial of a pediatric primary case - based obesity prevention intervention for at - risk 5 - 10 year olds

Despite limitations, findings from the present study, drawn from a relatively large sample and strengthened by the objective measurement of weight, height, and PA, extend our knowledge of the role of parent factors in pediatric obesity.