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        Influence of maternal obesity on the long-term health of offspring

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

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        The psychosocial burden of childhood overweight and obesity: evidence for persisting difficulties in boys and girls

        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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        Childhood obesity: what we have learnt from our failure to engage mothers in our intervention

        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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        Associations between changes in caregiver’s and child’s weight status in a community-based obesity intervention programme

        We examined whether caregivers of children/adolescents enroled in a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of a family-centred intervention indirectly achieved reductions in body mass index (BMI), and if these were associated with changes in their children’s BMI. ...

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        Higher maternal protectiveness is associated with higher odds of child overweight and obesity: A longitudinal Australian study

        Using data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, this study aimed to examine the longitudinal relationships between maternal protectiveness and... ...

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        Long maternal working hours were linked to obesity, underweight and stunting in children under age 5 in China

        This study assessed the relationship between maternal working hours and stunting, underweight and obesity in children under age 5 in China, using data from the China Nutrition and Health Survey (CNHS) conducted in 2002 and multivariable logistic regression. We found that maternal work hours 25–40 or >40 h per week were associated with a higher risk for underweight and stunting (under growth) in children under age 5. ...

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        Understanding obesity among companion dogs: New measures of owner's beliefs and behaviour and associations with body condition scores

        The findings provide a method for assessing a wide range of factors that may be associated with obesity among companion dogs ...

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        Influence of maternal obesity on the long-term health of offspring

        Including immediate implications for pregnancy complications, increasing evidence implicates maternal obesity having a major impact on long term child health. ...

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        Ultraviolet radiation suppresses obesity and symptoms of metabolic syndrome independently of vitamin D

        UVR or sunlight exposure may be an effective means of suppressing the development of obesity and MetS, through mechanisms that are independent of vitamin D ...

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        Genome-wide methylation analysis identifies differentially methylated CpG loci associated with severe obesity in childhood.

        This study identifies widespread DNA methylation changes in whole blood associated with childhood obesity. ...

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