title: Reduced quality of life in very overweight Mexican American adolescents.
abstract: Quality of life (Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory, PedsQL) was assessed for 175 Mexican American adolescents with measured height and weight used to determine body mass index (BMI) percentile/weight classification. Main effects for weight classification were detected using One-way ANOVAs (p < .05 for total, physical, and psychosocial), with the heaviest adolescents demonstrating the lowest ratings.
authors: Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics-Nutrition, Houston, Texas, USA. cltyler@bcm.edu <cltyler@bcm.edu>
authors: Chermaine
authors: C
authors: Tyler
authors: Craig A
authors: CA
authors: Johnston
authors: Ginny
authors: G
authors: Fullerton
authors: John P
authors: JP
authors: Foreyt
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017058:Mexican Americans / Q000523:psychology*; D009765:Obesity / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology*; D011788:Quality of Life; D013781:Texas / Q000453:epidemiology