PMID- 23334584
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20131211
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 0973-7693 (Electronic)
IS  - 0019-5456 (Linking)
VI  - 80 Suppl 1
DP  - 2013 Mar
TI  - Childhood obesity and the metabolic syndrome in developing countries.
PG  - S28-37
LID - 10.1007/s12098-012-0923-5 [doi]
AB  - Rapidly changing dietary practices accompanied by an increasingly sedentary 
      lifestyle predispose to nutrition-related non-communicable diseases, including 
      childhood obesity. Over the last 5 y, reports from several developing countries 
      indicate prevalence rates of obesity (inclusive of overweight) >15 % in children 
      and adolescents aged 5-19 y; Mexico 41.8 %, Brazil 22.1 %, India 22.0 % and 
      Argentina 19.3 %. Moreover, secular trends also indicate an alarming increase in 
      obesity in developing countries; in Brazil from 4.1 % to 13.9 % between 1974 and 
      1997; in China from 6.4 % to 7.7 % between 1991 and 1997; and in India from 4.9 % 
      to 6.6 % between 2003-04 to 2005-06. Other contributory factors to childhood 
      obesity include: high socio-economic status, residence in metropolitan cities and 
      female gender. Childhood obesity tracks into adulthood, thus increasing the risk 
      for conditions like the metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), 
      polycystic ovarian syndrome, hypertension, dyslipidemia and coronary artery 
      disease later in life. Interestingly, prevalence of the metabolic syndrome was 
      35.2 % among overweight Chinese adolescents. Presence of central obesity (high 
      waist-to-hip circumference ratio) along with hypertriglyceridemia and family 
      history of T2DM increase the odds of T2DM by 112.1 in young Asian Indians (< 40 
      y). Therapeutic lifestyle changes and maintenance of regular physical activity 
      are most important strategies for preventing childhood obesity. Effective health 
      awareness educational programs for children should be immediately initiated in 
      developing countries, following the successful model program in India (project 
      'MARG').
FAU - Gupta, Nidhi
AU  - Gupta N
AD  - Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI, USA.
FAU - Shah, Priyali
AU  - Shah P
FAU - Nayyar, Sugandha
AU  - Nayyar S
FAU - Misra, Anoop
AU  - Misra A
LA  - eng
PT  - Comparative Study
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20130120
PL  - India
TA  - Indian J Pediatr
JT  - Indian journal of pediatrics
JID - 0417442
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Child
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Cross-Cultural Comparison
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - *Developing Countries
MH  - Feeding Behavior
MH  - Female
MH  - *Health Transition
MH  - Humans
MH  - India
MH  - Life Style
MH  - Male
MH  - Metabolic Syndrome/*epidemiology/ethnology/etiology
MH  - Overweight/epidemiology/ethnology/etiology
MH  - Pediatric Obesity/*epidemiology/ethnology/etiology
MH  - Risk Factors
EDAT- 2013/01/22 06:00
MHDA- 2013/12/16 06:00
CRDT- 2013/01/22 06:00
PHST- 2012/01/19 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2012/10/19 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2013/01/22 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/01/22 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2013/12/16 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1007/s12098-012-0923-5 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Indian J Pediatr. 2013 Mar;80 Suppl 1:S28-37. doi: 10.1007/s12098-012-0923-5. 
      Epub 2013 Jan 20.