"Health Care Expenditures Associated with
Overweight and Obesity among US Adults: Importance of Age and Race." American Journal of Public Health 95 (1): 159-65.
Five studies examined the interactions between primary health care professionals and
overweight or obese patients.
Over the past two decades, proportion of children among general population who are
overweight and obese has doubled in developed as well as in developing counties including India, [7,8] and parallelly, there is a increasing prevalence of diabetes.
A report by the NHS Information Services Division reveals that of the 1,359 children surveyed, 182 are classed as at risk of being
overweight - 13.4 per cent of the total figure - while a further 148 are at risk of obesity.
The
overweight level is determined using Body Mass Index (BMI) as the indicator, which is a person's weight in kilogrammes divided by the square of height in metres.
According to the study findings, 66 per cent of Indians and 70 per cent of Pakistanis were found to be
overweight, the percentage was comparatively lower for Filipinos at 54 per cent.
Although evidence clearly indicates that being
overweight is associated with chronic pain conditions, the prevalence of chronic pain among adults with an
overweight BMI compared to those with a normal BMI worldwide is unclear, especially when
overweight status is distinguished from obesity.
TheHorsellEast and Woodham ward inWokinghas 20% of four and five-year-olds and a quarter of 10 and 11-year-olds are
overweight.
And yes, being obese puts you at greater risk of disease than being
overweight. But being
overweight is far from harmless.
"This large-scale longitudinal study showed that men who had remission of
overweight between 7 and 13 years of age and had subsequently maintained a normal weight in early adulthood had a risk of type 2 diabetes similar to that among men with normal weights at all of these ages," Lise G.
The researchers found that infants born vaginally to
overweight or obese mothers were significantly more likely to become
overweight at age 1 year, compared with being born vaginally to a normal-weight mother (adjusted odds ratio, 3.33); the risk was also increased for cesarean-delivered infants of
overweight mothers (adjusted odds ratio, 5.02).
Estimating early childhood
overweight and obesity during schooling helps in preventing disease progression into adulthood.