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Assessment of Child Anthropometry in a Large Epidemiologic Study
Published on: February 2, 2017
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方便:养活家庭 - - 抗击肥胖的跨代方法,一个横截面的研究协议
Alessandra Vincenti1, Valeria Calcaterra2,3, Sara Santero1
1Laboratory of Dietetics and Clinical Nutrition, Department of Public Health, Experimental and Forensic Medicine, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
Frontiers in pediatrics
|April 15, 2025
概括
儿童肥胖是一个日益严重的全球健康危机. 该研究调查了影响儿童肥胖的生活方式,社会经济和环境因素,以告知预防计划.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 儿科 儿科 儿科
- 流行病学 流行病学
背景情况:
- 儿童肥胖症是21世纪一个关键的健康挑战,在过去的40年里,儿童肥胖症在全球增加了10到12倍.
- 儿童肥胖是多因素的,受社会经济地位,种族,生活方式,母亲因素和食物环境的影响.
研究的目的:
- 为了估计儿童超重和肥胖的患病率.
- 评估生活方式,社会经济,文化和环境因素对儿童肥胖的影响.
- 为制定以母亲和儿童为中心的预防计划提供信息.
主要方法:
- 采用了横截面研究设计.
- 这项名为"FACILITY: feeding the family-the intergenerational approach to fight obesity"的研究调查了母亲和儿童的风险因素.
- 数据收集的重点是生活方式,社会经济,文化,经济,环境和健康相关因素.
主要成果:
- 这项研究旨在确定导致儿童肥胖的关键风险因素.
- 结果将提供关于儿科人口中超重和肥胖的流行情况的见解.
- 这项研究将突出儿童肥胖的各种决定因素之间的相互作用.
结论:
- 这些发现将成为针对儿童早期肥胖症的"原始预防计划"的基础.
- 这项研究强调需要多学科的方法来解决儿童肥胖问题.
- 了解促成因素对于开发有效的,基于证据的干预措施至关重要.
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