Epidemiology

Childhood overweight a risk factor for severe obesity over life course

Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, April 14th, 2003

The results of a large, interdisciplinary study show that childhood overweight is a risk factor for severe obesity over the life course, but overweight kids who don't become severely obese don't have a higher mortality risk.

A sociologist, a gerontologist, a veterinary pathobiologist, and others from Purdue University and the University of Arizona, Tucson, use "a life course perspective ... to examine the epidemiology of severe obesity in adulthood, defined as a body mass index {{>=}} 35 kg/m²."

K.F. Ferraro and colleagues obtained data on 6,767 adults from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I: Epidemiologic Followup...

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Source: Obesity and Diabetes Week (2003-04-14)

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