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Management of children with obesity at local hospital and impact of COVID-19 pandemic

This study investigated the status of children with obesity before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, and the effects of lifestyle guidance on weight loss among children in Japan. We analysed the data of patients who visited our hospital after check-ups for obesity and evaluated the efficacy of lifest...

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Autores principales: Ninchoji, Takeshi, Aoto, Yuya, Momo, Natsuki, Maruyama, Jun, Ioi, Hiroaki, Uchida, Hayato
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10448958/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37635787
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2023.1228681
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author Ninchoji, Takeshi
Aoto, Yuya
Momo, Natsuki
Maruyama, Jun
Ioi, Hiroaki
Uchida, Hayato
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description This study investigated the status of children with obesity before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, and the effects of lifestyle guidance on weight loss among children in Japan. We analysed the data of patients who visited our hospital after check-ups for obesity and evaluated the efficacy of lifestyle guidance. The patients were divided into groups A, B, and C (year 2011, 2019, and 2021, respectively). There were no differences in body weight, obesity index (OI), blood pressure, or alanine transaminase (ALT) levels between the groups; however, aspartate transaminase (AST) level was the highest in Group C. In Group C, only OI increased between the primary and secondary screenings; however, OI and body mass index (BMI) improved during the second screening and more children in the weight loss group followed lifestyle guidance. OI/BMI did not change over the past decade; however, short-term weight gain was significant owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, and simple guidance was effective in reducing weight. Future challenges include identifying methods to achieve long-term weight loss.
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spelling pubmed-104489582023-08-25 Management of children with obesity at local hospital and impact of COVID-19 pandemic Ninchoji, Takeshi Aoto, Yuya Momo, Natsuki Maruyama, Jun Ioi, Hiroaki Uchida, Hayato Front Pediatr Pediatrics This study investigated the status of children with obesity before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, and the effects of lifestyle guidance on weight loss among children in Japan. We analysed the data of patients who visited our hospital after check-ups for obesity and evaluated the efficacy of lifestyle guidance. The patients were divided into groups A, B, and C (year 2011, 2019, and 2021, respectively). There were no differences in body weight, obesity index (OI), blood pressure, or alanine transaminase (ALT) levels between the groups; however, aspartate transaminase (AST) level was the highest in Group C. In Group C, only OI increased between the primary and secondary screenings; however, OI and body mass index (BMI) improved during the second screening and more children in the weight loss group followed lifestyle guidance. OI/BMI did not change over the past decade; however, short-term weight gain was significant owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, and simple guidance was effective in reducing weight. Future challenges include identifying methods to achieve long-term weight loss. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC10448958/ /pubmed/37635787 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2023.1228681 Text en © 2023 Ninchoji, Aoto, Momo, Maruyama, Ioi and Uchida. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Ninchoji, Takeshi
Aoto, Yuya
Momo, Natsuki
Maruyama, Jun
Ioi, Hiroaki
Uchida, Hayato
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title Management of children with obesity at local hospital and impact of COVID-19 pandemic
title_full Management of children with obesity at local hospital and impact of COVID-19 pandemic
title_fullStr Management of children with obesity at local hospital and impact of COVID-19 pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Management of children with obesity at local hospital and impact of COVID-19 pandemic
title_short Management of children with obesity at local hospital and impact of COVID-19 pandemic
title_sort management of children with obesity at local hospital and impact of covid-19 pandemic
topic Pediatrics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10448958/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37635787
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2023.1228681
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