Whānau Pakari is a healthy lifestyle assessment and intervention programme for children and adolescents with obesity in Taranaki (Aotearoa/New Zealand), which, in this region, replaced the nationally funded Green Prescription Active Families (GRxAF) programme.  ...

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• 2024
• February 2024

To determine the influence of obesity on neonatal hypoglycaemia among infants born to gestational diabetes mellitus mothers. ...

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• 2017
• September 2017

Overweight and obese children reported greater psychosocial distress than healthy weight children, and these differences were more pronounced for girls than boys. ...

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• 2017
• July 2017

To understand the genetic basis of obesity better, here we conduct a genome-wide association study and Metabochip meta-analysis of body mass index (BMI),... ...

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• 2015
• February 2015

Lipidomic biomarkers associated with obesity and IR using plasma samples from a population-based cohort of young adults ...

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• 2016
• March 2016

Increasing evidence implicates maternal obesity as a major determinant of offspring health during childhood and later adult life ...

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• 2017
• January 2017

With more than one in four Australian children overweight or obese, and the significant risks this poses for health problems like asthma, depression,... ...

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• 2013
• August 2013

Reliance on increasing use of dietary supplementation and fortification (eg, with folate) to compensate for increased consumption of processed foods is also... ...

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• 2014
• August 2014

Secondary care could be the optimal sector for managing child and adolescent obesity, given low primary care uptake and limited tertiary services. ...

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• 2013
• January 2013

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between a child's weight and a broad range of family and maternal factors. ...

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• 2007
• June 2007