Changes in preobesity weight velocities in obese children.
A retrospective analysis of the growth charts of 58 (30 females, 28 males) obese children from the author's general pediatric practice was undertaken to determine changes in preobesity weight velocity. The children fell into two groups. One group of children (group 1, n = 30) had a small increase (0.36 +/- 0.49, means +/- SD) in their weight velocity Z scores the year before reaching obesity. The second group (group 2, n = 28) had an increase (2.42 +/- 1.0) in their weight velocity Z scores more than six times that of the first group. There was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of severity of obesity either at onset. By later, or at adolescence. Nor was there a significant difference in age of onset of obesity, presence of obesity in their parents, or the persistence of obesity into adolescence.
Taubman
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Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA.
D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001835:Body Weight / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012737:Sex Factors; D013997:Time Factors