Browsing by Subject "Childhood obesity"
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E-KINDEX: A Dietary Screening Tool to Assess Children's Obesogenic Dietary Habits
(2011)Background: To date, no published dietary indices have evaluated the overall effects of various dietary components, beliefs, and practices on the development of obesity in children. Objective: To develop a dietary index ...
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Hair cortisol concentrations exhibit a positive association with salivary cortisol profiles and are increased in obese prepubertal girls
(2017)Cortisol, a key mediator of the stress response, has been associated with obesity and metabolic syndrome manifestations as early as in childhood. Scalp hair cortisol has been proposed as a reliable index of long-term ...
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Prevalence of obesity in children aged 6-12 years in Greece: Nutritional behaviour and physical activity
(2012)Introduction: During the last two decades, obesity has proved to be one of the most important problems of public health, and it is considerably more frequent in developed countries, not only in adults, but in children, ...