scholarly journals Reducing Hispanic Children’s Obesity Risk Factors in the First 1000 Days of Life: A Qualitative Analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer A. Woo Baidal ◽  
Shaniece Criss ◽  
Roberta E. Goldman ◽  
Meghan Perkins ◽  
Courtney Cunningham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Weight Gain ◽  
Childhood Obesity ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Infant Development ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Obesity Risk ◽  
Important Health ◽  
Obesity Risk Factors

Objectives. Modifiable behaviors during the first 1000 days (conception age 24 months) mediate Hispanic children’s obesity disparities. We aimed to examine underlying reasons for early life obesity risk factors and identify potential early life intervention strategies.Methods. We conducted 7 focus groups with 49 Hispanic women who were pregnant or had children < age 24 months. Domains included influences on childhood obesity risk factors and future intervention ideas. We analyzed data with immersion-crystallization methods until no new themes emerged.Results. Themes included coping with pregnancy may trump healthy eating and physical activity; early life weight gain is unrelated to later life obesity; fear of infant hunger drives bottle and early solids introduction; beliefs about infant taste promote early solids and sugary beverage introduction; and belief that screen time promotes infant development. Mothers identified physicians, nutritionists, and relatives as important health information sources and expressed interest in mobile technology and group or home visits for interventions.Conclusion. Opportunities exist in the first 1000 days to improve Hispanic mothers’ understanding of the role of early life weight gain in childhood obesity and other obesity risk factors. Interventions that link health care and public health systems and include extended family may prevent obesity among Hispanic children.

Early‐life childhood obesity risk prediction: A Danish register‐based cohort study exploring the predictive value of infancy weight gain

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torill Alise Rotevatn ◽  
Rikke Nørmark Mortensen ◽  
Line Rosenkilde Ullits ◽  
Christian Torp‐Pedersen ◽  
Charlotte Overgaard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cohort Study ◽  
Weight Gain ◽  
Childhood Obesity ◽  
Risk Prediction ◽  
Predictive Value ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Obesity Risk

Childhood obesity: risk factors, prevention and management

2014 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 411-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. C. Langley-Evans ◽  
V. H. Moran
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Childhood Obesity ◽  
Obesity Risk ◽  
Obesity Risk Factors

scholarly journals Childhood Obesity: Risk Factors and Preventive Measures

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Childhood Obesity ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Obesity Risk ◽  
Common People ◽  
Obesity Epidemic ◽  
Hormonal Imbalance ◽  
The Future ◽  
Obesity Risk Factors

The obesity epidemic has grown worldwide in both the developed and developing countries. We are the “present” of the era with ever increasing growth of obesity; the coming generation is our “future”. Future of obesity largely depends on how we are handling it in present. Overweight and obesity prevailing in children has multiple causes from genetic factor, hormonal imbalance to environmental factors, lifestyle preferences and cultural practice. Keeping apart the hormonal, genetic and any physiological causes of obesity which are not in direct control, the remaining factors such as lifestyle, environment and cultural background which can be modulate to help eliminating percentage of existing and future obesity. Evidences have suggested that the major cause of obesity is imbalance between food habits and physical activity. Additional factors as per the recent researches show that excessive use of smart phones has increased the overweight issues and also increases the anxiety among the user. Childhood obesity has maximum chances to develop into adulthood obesity. Therefore, to eradicate the future obesity, there is need to increase the awareness of do's & don'ts to prevent obesity and also the educate common people to know about the pros & cons of obesity. This paper is inclined towards the various risk factors of childhood obesity, and also pointing some preventive and educational measure to avoid obesity in the future.

scholarly journals A Practical Screening Tool to Predict Early Childhood Obesity Risk: Examining a Birth Cohort

2020 ◽  
pp. 000992282097100
Author(s):  
James Gannon ◽  
Allison J. Pollock ◽  
David B. Allen ◽  
Pamela J. Kling
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Childhood Obesity ◽  
Iron Deficiency ◽  
Birth Cohort ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Maternal Obesity ◽  
Maternal Diabetes ◽  
Large For Gestational Age ◽  
Obesity Risk ◽  
Total Risk

Children obese at the age of 5 years are at greater risk of lifelong obesity. Because certain risks of obesity can be identified in early infancy, a tool for obesity risk prediction in early life would be clinically useful. We investigated predictors of obesity risk in a novel, prospectively collected healthy birth cohort recruited for demographic risks to develop iron deficiency at 1 year, a cohort leveraged because risk factors for iron deficiency and obesity overlap. Obesity at the age of 5 years was defined as age- and sex-specific body mass index Z-score ( zBMI) >2SD. For each child, obesity risk factors were summed. Of 10 total risk factors, the following 4 key risks were identified: maternal obesity, maternal diabetes, large for gestational age, or breastfeeding <6 months. Childhood obesity was predicted by either ≥3 total number of risks ( P < .033), any key risk ( P < .002), or summing key risks ( P < .0001). In clinical practice, summing early life risk factors may be a useful strategy for preemptive counseling.

scholarly journals Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Early Childhood Obesity

2018 ◽  
pp. 58-72
Author(s):  
Inyang A. Isong ◽  
Sowmya R. Rao ◽  
Marie-Abèle Bind ◽  
Mauricio Avendaño ◽  
Ichiro Kawachi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Weight Gain ◽  
Childhood Obesity ◽  
Ethnic Disparities ◽  
Z Score ◽  
Z Scores ◽  
Obesity Risk Factors ◽  
Early Childhood Obesity ◽  
Infant Weight Gain

OBJECTIVES The prevalence of childhood obesity is significantly higher among racial and/or ethnic minority children in the United States. It is unclear to what extent well-established obesity risk factors in infancy and preschool explain these disparities. Our objective was to decompose racial and/or ethnic disparities in children’s weight status according to contributing socioeconomic and behavioral risk factors. METHODS We used nationally representative data from ~10 700 children in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Birth Cohort who were followed from age 9 months through kindergarten entry. We assessed the contribution of socioeconomic factors and maternal, infancy, and early childhood obesity risk factors to racial and/or ethnic disparities in children’s BMI z scores by using Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analyses. RESULTS The prevalence of risk factors varied significantly by race and/or ethnicity. African American children had the highest prevalence of risk factors, whereas Asian children had the lowest prevalence. The major contributor to the BMI z score gap was the rate of infant weight gain during the first 9 months of life, which was a strong predictor of BMI z score at kindergarten entry. The rate of infant weight gain accounted for between 14.9% and 70.5% of explained disparities between white children and their racial and/or ethnic minority peers. Gaps in socioeconomic status were another important contributor that explained disparities, especially those between white and Hispanic children. Early childhood risk factors, such as fruit and vegetable consumption and television viewing, played less important roles in explaining racial and/or ethnic differences in children’s BMI z scores. CONCLUSIONS Differences in rapid infant weight gain contribute substantially to racial and/or ethnic disparities in obesity during early childhood. Interventions implemented early in life to target this risk factor could help curb widening racial and/or ethnic disparities in early childhood obesity.

scholarly journals Childhood obesity: risk factors, prevention and management

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 453-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon C. Langley-Evans ◽  
Victoria Hall Moran
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Childhood Obesity ◽  
Obesity Risk ◽  
Obesity Risk Factors
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