Background: Effective interventions to prevent obesity in youth are needed in order to alleviate the public health burden associated with elevated blood pressure (BP). However, interventions designed to prevent obesity through increased physical activity levels have had limited success.Objectives: This thesis has four objectives: 1) to assess the impact of changes in adiposity indicators on increases in systolic blood pressure (SBP) during adolescence; 2) to examine the longitudinal association between declines in physical activity and SBP in youth; 3) to assess whether weight status misperception is associated with exposure to overweight/obese people at home or in school; 4) to examine if weight status misperception is associated with the...
Introduction: This program of research targeted the impact of an 8-month weight loss intervention in...
Background - Obesity is the most common chronic pediatric pathology in the world. It is responsible ...
peer reviewedAlmost 35% of overweight or obese individuals are free of any metabolic disorder. This ...
Until recently, hypertension was rarely diagnosed in children or adolescents and was not considered ...
Obesity currently represents a major public health issue. Despite the fact that physical activity (P...
Background: Given the increasing prevalence of youth overweight and obesity in the last decade, prev...
Obesity is a major public health issue and is associated with increased cardiovascular and metabolic...
Background: Childhood obesity is a complex disease that is associated with health consequences. The ...
Background: Among adolescents, social differences in physical activity (PA) and sedentary behaviour ...
Mémoire originalNational audienceThe prevalence of obesity in children has increased dramatically du...
Cette thèse est basée sur le constat du manque d’activité physique (AP) chez les adolescents : envir...
L'obésité est associée à une morbidité cardiovasculaire et métabolique accrue. La littérature récent...
The increasing prevalence of early childhood overweight and obesity raises major public healthissues...
Contexte : Etant donné la forte progression de la prévalence du surpoids et de l'obésité à l'adolesc...
INTRODUÇÃO: A alta prevalência da obesidade infantil em diferentes partes do planeta a posiciona com...
Introduction: This program of research targeted the impact of an 8-month weight loss intervention in...
Background - Obesity is the most common chronic pediatric pathology in the world. It is responsible ...
peer reviewedAlmost 35% of overweight or obese individuals are free of any metabolic disorder. This ...
Until recently, hypertension was rarely diagnosed in children or adolescents and was not considered ...
Obesity currently represents a major public health issue. Despite the fact that physical activity (P...
Background: Given the increasing prevalence of youth overweight and obesity in the last decade, prev...
Obesity is a major public health issue and is associated with increased cardiovascular and metabolic...
Background: Childhood obesity is a complex disease that is associated with health consequences. The ...
Background: Among adolescents, social differences in physical activity (PA) and sedentary behaviour ...
Mémoire originalNational audienceThe prevalence of obesity in children has increased dramatically du...
Cette thèse est basée sur le constat du manque d’activité physique (AP) chez les adolescents : envir...
L'obésité est associée à une morbidité cardiovasculaire et métabolique accrue. La littérature récent...
The increasing prevalence of early childhood overweight and obesity raises major public healthissues...
Contexte : Etant donné la forte progression de la prévalence du surpoids et de l'obésité à l'adolesc...
INTRODUÇÃO: A alta prevalência da obesidade infantil em diferentes partes do planeta a posiciona com...
Introduction: This program of research targeted the impact of an 8-month weight loss intervention in...
Background - Obesity is the most common chronic pediatric pathology in the world. It is responsible ...
peer reviewedAlmost 35% of overweight or obese individuals are free of any metabolic disorder. This ...