Influence of environmental and genetic factors on obesity in young children and in adolescents from parents with a history of elevated BMI or obesity

• Evgenia O. Pekareva
• Natalia A. Pekareva

Abstract

The prevalence of childhood obesity has increased worldwide. The World Health Organization estimates that 39 million children under 5 years of age were overweight or obese in 2020, and 340 million children aged 5 to 19 years were overweight or obese in 2016. If the trend continues at the same rate as seen after the year 2000, it could have been expected that there would be more children with obesity than moderate or severe malnutrition in 2025. Identifying the incidence of obesity associated with anthropometric data of parents, their insulin resistance, overweight, obesity and other metabolic disorders, as well as with the peculiarities of the intrauterine period, is fundamentally important for understanding how to impact and prevent it in young and older children.

Keywords: metabolic disorders in children; insulin resistance; obesity in children; body mass index

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