Sentences with phrase «severely obese children»

The role of self - regulating abilities in long - term weight loss in severely obese children and adolescents undergoing intensive combined lifestyle interventions (HELIOS); rationale, design and methods

Using targeted and whole - exome sequencing, we studied 32 human and 87 rodent obesity genes in 2,548 severely obese children and 1,117 controls.

Four years ago, Farooqi's group discovered that a separate mutation in the gene for melanocortin - 4 receptor shows up in 1 percent of obese people and 5 to 6 percent of severely obese children.

They found that, compared with people of normal weight, the 300 severely obese children in their study were far more likely to have large, rare deletions.

21 percent of severely obese children experienced physical victimization compared to only 5.4 percent of normal weight children and 8.7 percent of overweight kids.

Not exact matches

A 2015 study in Italy involving 147 elementary school kids concluded that normal - weight and overweight children were far less likely to be bullied than their obese or severely obese counterparts.

Our community sample of obese children reported PedsQL scores that were between the children who were not overweight and the severely obese clinical sample.