ArticlePediatric obesity2022
Central obesity in school-aged children increases the likelihood of developing paediatric autoimmune diseases.
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- Not Only Metabolic Complications of Childhood Obesity.Nutrients · 2024Review
- Interaction between genetic susceptibility to obesity and food intake on BMI in Finnish school-aged children.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Development of a semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire for dietary intake of elementary school children: data from the Seventh Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.Nutrition research and practice · 2023Article
- A Deep Learning Neural Network to Classify Obesity Risk in Portuguese Adolescents Based on Physical Fitness Levels and Body Mass Index Percentiles: Insights for National Health Policies.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Obesity Status and Physical Fitness Levels in Male and Female Portuguese Adolescents: A Two-Way Multivariate Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Pre-Diagnostic Saliva Microbiota of School-Aged Children Who Developed Type 1 Diabetes or Inflammatory Bowel Diseases.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Low maternal education increases the risk of Type 1 Diabetes, but not other autoimmune diseases: a mediating role of childhood BMI and exposure to serious life events.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Associations of central obesity and habitual food consumption with saliva microbiota and its enzymatic profiles - a pilot study in Finnish children.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Pediatric obesity-Long-term consequences and effect of weight loss.Journal of internal medicine · 2022Review
- Central obesity in school-aged children increases the likelihood of developing paediatric autoimmune diseases.Pediatric obesity · 2022Article
- Identifying factors associated with central obesity in school students using artificial intelligence techniques.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe incidences of both paediatric obesity and autoimmune diseases have been increasing, but their relationship with one another is unclear.
objectiveTo determine whether obesity or particular dietary patterns in school-aged children are potential risk factors for autoimmune diseases during adolescence.
methodsThis matched case-control study included 525 children, followed up from a median age of 11.3 to 16.7 years. Of them, 105 children received primary autoimmune diagnoses (diabetes, thyroiditis, arthritis, or inflammatory bowel diseases) after baseline and generated the case group. Four children with matching age, sex, and residential area generated the control group of 420 children. At baseline, age- and sex-specific body mass index categories were acquired and waist-to-height ratio (WHTR) was calculated. Central obesity was present when WHTR ≥0.5. Dietary patterns were analysed using a food frequency questionnaire (FFQ).
resultsSchool-aged children with central obesity were 2.11 (OR, 95% CI 1.11-3.98) times more likely to develop autoimmune diseases before age of 19 years than those without central obesity. Being overweight was not related to the onset of these diseases (OR 1.60, 95% CI 0.89-2.87, nor were dietary patterns.
conclusionCentral obesity in school-aged children was related to the development of autoimmune diseases, while being overweight and dietary patterns were not.
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