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Childhood obesity: implications for current and future health

Published on August 29, 2024   39 min

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The title of this presentation is Childhood Obesity: Implications for Current and Future Health. My name is Peter Katzmarzyk, and I work at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I'm an epidemiologist of physical activity and obesity, and I work with large cohort studies and clinical interventions in both children and in adults.
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In this presentation, we will provide information on identifying overweight and obesity in children, we'll identify some factors associated with childhood obesity, and then consider the implications of obesity for health both in childhood and in the future. Finally, I'll close just with a couple of clinical resources that you might find useful.
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This slide presents an overarching model of what I would like to cover today. You'll see that childhood is on the bottom, adulthood is on the top, and there are arrows between obesity and health in both stages of life. Starting in childhood, we can readily identify with this that obesity is related to health outcomes during the childhood period. Obesity also tracks from childhood to adulthood with that solid arrow connecting them. We also understand that obesity is related to health outcomes during adulthood itself. Finally, there's that dotted line which links childhood obesity to adulthood health as there is some evidence that obesity itself per se may impact future health outcomes irrespective of the obesity status as an adult. During today's presentation, I'd like to walk you through some of the evidence supporting this model.

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