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Study of relationship between obesity and executive functions among high school students in Bushehr, Iran
BACKGROUND: Obesity is one of the most challenging problems of public health in the present century and can have some serious impacts on cognitive abilities in children and adolescents. This study has tried to investigate the relationship between obesity and executive functioning, particularly in pl...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4612721/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26491649 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40200-015-0211-9 |
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author | Qavam, Soqra Ebrahimi Anisan, Abbas Fathi, Marjan Pourabbasi, Ata |
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description | BACKGROUND: Obesity is one of the most challenging problems of public health in the present century and can have some serious impacts on cognitive abilities in children and adolescents. This study has tried to investigate the relationship between obesity and executive functioning, particularly in planning- organizing and problem solving among a group of adolescents. METHODS: Some 120 male high school students in the 15 to 18 year age range were included. BMI and executive functions were measured with validetes tools and tests in cases. RESULTS: There is a significant difference between the executive functions such as planning-organizing and problem solving in obese, overweight and normal students. CONCLUSIONS: According to our results it seems the obese adolescents have poorer executive functions than normal weight peers. This is important for families and school staff to design and follow some therapeutic plans for weight reduction in adolescents in order to help them improve their skills in some functions such as planning-organizing and problem solving. |
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spelling | pubmed-46127212015-10-22 Study of relationship between obesity and executive functions among high school students in Bushehr, Iran Qavam, Soqra Ebrahimi Anisan, Abbas Fathi, Marjan Pourabbasi, Ata J Diabetes Metab Disord Research Article BACKGROUND: Obesity is one of the most challenging problems of public health in the present century and can have some serious impacts on cognitive abilities in children and adolescents. This study has tried to investigate the relationship between obesity and executive functioning, particularly in planning- organizing and problem solving among a group of adolescents. METHODS: Some 120 male high school students in the 15 to 18 year age range were included. BMI and executive functions were measured with validetes tools and tests in cases. RESULTS: There is a significant difference between the executive functions such as planning-organizing and problem solving in obese, overweight and normal students. CONCLUSIONS: According to our results it seems the obese adolescents have poorer executive functions than normal weight peers. This is important for families and school staff to design and follow some therapeutic plans for weight reduction in adolescents in order to help them improve their skills in some functions such as planning-organizing and problem solving. BioMed Central 2015-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4612721/ /pubmed/26491649 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40200-015-0211-9 Text en © Qavam et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Qavam, Soqra Ebrahimi Anisan, Abbas Fathi, Marjan Pourabbasi, Ata Study of relationship between obesity and executive functions among high school students in Bushehr, Iran |
title | Study of relationship between obesity and executive functions among high school students in Bushehr, Iran |
title_full | Study of relationship between obesity and executive functions among high school students in Bushehr, Iran |
title_fullStr | Study of relationship between obesity and executive functions among high school students in Bushehr, Iran |
title_full_unstemmed | Study of relationship between obesity and executive functions among high school students in Bushehr, Iran |
title_short | Study of relationship between obesity and executive functions among high school students in Bushehr, Iran |
title_sort | study of relationship between obesity and executive functions among high school students in bushehr, iran |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4612721/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26491649 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40200-015-0211-9 |
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