Cynthia L Ogden

..The prevalence of childhood obesity increased in the 1980s and 1990s but there were no significant changes in prevalence between 1999-2000 and 2007-2008 in the United States...

..The prevalence of overweight among US children and adolescents increased between 1980 and 2004...

..The prevalence of overweight in children and adolescents and obesity in adults in the United States has increased over several decades...

..3, P = 0.33). These data indicate a possible association between reduced fetal growth, represented by birthweight adjusted for gestational age, and increased cholesterol levels in early childhood...

..The prevalence of high body mass index (BMI) among children and adolescents in the United States appeared to plateau between 1999 and 2006...

..Many studies of dietary and behavioral treatments, however, have shown that maintenance of weight loss is difficult. The social and economic costs of obesity and of attempts to prevent or to treat obesity are high...

..The causes of obesity are poorly understood, and both the prevention and the treatment of obesity are difficult. In this context, the ability to track epidemiologic trends in overweight and obesity is important...

..To examine racial/ethnic differences in the relationship between weight perception and weight management behaviors among overweight and obese adults...

..Body mass index (BMI)-for-age has been recommended as a screening test for excess adiposity in children and adolescents...

..The prevalence of overweight among children in the United States increased between 1976-1980 and 1988-1994, but estimates for the current decade are unknown...

..We sought to describe differences between normal weight, overweight, and obese adults in use of specific prescription medication classes...

..Between 1980 and 1999, the prevalence of adult obesity (body mass index [BMI] ≥30) increased in the United States and the distribution of BMI changed. More recent data suggested a slowing or leveling off of these trends...

..The 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) growth charts included lambda-mu-sigma (LMS) parameters intended to calculate smoothed percentiles from only the 3rd to the 97th percentile...

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..The prevalence of obesity and overweight increased in the United States between 1978 and 1991. More recent reports have suggested continued increases but are based on self-reported data...

..The prevalence of overweight and obesity has increased markedly in the last 2 decades in the United States...

..BMI, which is an indirect measure of body fat, may inadequately represent the biological effect of body fat percentage on lipid concentrations...

..Before estimating smoothed percentiles of weight-for-height and BMI-for-age to construct the WHO growth charts, WHO excluded observations that were considered to represent unhealthy weights for height...

..The prevalence of obesity increased in the United States between 1976-1980 and 1988-1994 and again between 1988-1994 and 1999-2000...

..The prevalence of childhood overweight in the United States has markedly increased over the last 30 years. We examined differences in the secular trends for BMI, weight, and height among white, black, and Mexican-American children...

..Addressing the issue of weight misperception may help address the problem of obesity in the United States by increasing awareness of healthy weight levels, which may subsequently have an impact on weight-related behavior change...

..The Mexican-American population in the United States, both children and adults, is showing trends in overweight and obesity over time that are similar to those seen in other segments of the U.S. population and indeed in many countries...

..To examine the relation of family income, expressed relative to the poverty threshold, to the prevalence of childhood overweight, and to determine whether the association differs by race/ethnicity and time period...

..Despite their limitations, BMI-based definitions of overweight and obesity provide working practical definitions that are valuable for general public health surveillance and screening...

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..Body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and the waist-stature ratio (WSR) are considered to be possible proxies for adiposity...

..To examine trends in preventive asthma medication (PAM) use among children with current asthma in the United States from 1988 to 2008...

..The 2000 CDC growth charts provide a growth reference, not a prescriptive standard, for U.S. children...

..The definitions of overweight generally used are working definitions that are valuable for general public health surveillance, screening and similar purposes...

..These comparisons are undertaken with 2 sets of cutoff values...

..This review covers the measurement and classification of overweight and obesity, the expression of body composition data, and the relation of body mass index to adiposity...

..It has been suggested that skinfold thicknesses be measured among overweight children to confirm the presence of excess adiposity...

..The current anemia burden among US preschool children and women of childbearing age has not been documented...

..To present a clinical version of the 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) growth charts and to compare them with the previous version, the 1977 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) growth charts...

..The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between caries in primary teeth and healthful eating practices in young children...

..We examined whether BAI was more strongly related, than was BMI and waist circumference, to skinfold thicknesses and levels of various risk factors for coronary heart disease...