Adolescent patients with obesity are at significant risk of developing an eating disorder (ED), yet due to their higher weight status their symptoms often go unrecognized and untreated. Although not widely known, individuals with a weight history in the overweight (BMI-forage $85th percentile but ,95th percentile, as defined by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention growth charts) or obese ...

Adolescent patients with obesity are at significant risk of developing an eating disorder (ED), yet due to their higher weight status their symptoms often go unrecognized and untreated. Although not widely known, individuals with a weight history in the overweight (BMI-forage $85th percentile but ,95th percentile, as defined by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention growth charts) or obese ...

Adolescent patients with obesity are at significant risk of developing an eating disorder (ED), yet due to their higher weight status their symptoms often go unrecognized and untreated. Although not widely known, individuals with a weight history in the overweight (BMI-forage $85th percentile but ,95th percentile, as defined by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention growth charts) or obese ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the magnitude of the growth retardation in Dutch monozygotic and dizygotic twins during infancy in comparison with the Dutch reference growth charts for general population infants from 1997 and to construct reference growth charts for twins. DESIGN Descriptive. METHOD The growth of twins was studied using longitudinal data on over 4000 Dutch twin pairs from birth unti...

BACKGROUND Several obesity risk alleles affecting adult adiposity have been identified by the recent wave of genome wide association studies. We aimed to examine the potential effect of these variants on fetal body composition by investigating the variants in relation to birth weight and ponderal index of the newborn. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Midwife records from the Danish State Archiv...

The objective of this study was to evaluate how weight classification relates to meeting task constraints. Using a cross-sectional design, three-dimensional motion data were collected while children crossed obstacles of various heights. Twelve normal-weight (≥5th and <85th percentile on growth charts) and 12 overweight or obese (≥85th percentile on growth charts) 4- to 13-yr-olds participated. ...

Rodents are a useful model for life science research. Accumulating evidence suggests that the offspring of mice and rats suffer from similar disorders as humans when exposed to hypoxia during pregnancy. Importantly, with antenatal hypoxic exposure, human neonates demonstrate low birth weight or growth restriction. Similarly, with antenatal hypoxic exposure rodents also demonstrate the fetal gro...

BACKGROUND Controversy exists about how much, if any, weight obese pregnant women should gain. While the revised Institute of Medicine guidelines on gestational weight gain (GWG) in 2009 recommended a weight gain of 5-9 kg for obese pregnant women, many studies suggested even gestational weight loss (GWL) for obese women. OBJECTIVES A systematic review was conducted to summarize pregnancy out...

BACKGROUND Strong associations between blood pressure (BP) and overweight raise the question whether overweight children (body mass index (BMI) ≥85th percentile) should be included in the normative database. METHODS Using the LMS (Lamda-Mu-Sigma) method, we developed age-, gender-, and height-adjusted percentile curves for systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) at th...