Sentences with phrase «severely overweight children»

Like adults, severely overweight children and teens are at heightened risk for a host of physical and emotional problems, including cardiovascular disease (e.g., high cholesterol and blood pressure) and diabetes, as well as poor self - esteem and depression.

«HOLES» in the genomes of severely overweight children have revealed a new type of genetic variant that drives obesity.

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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.

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.

I was prediabetic at age 7 and severely overweight my entire childhood, I was also a very sickly child in and out of the doctors office almost constantly.

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