Risk of Childhood Obesity Can Be Predicted at Birth

 Risk of Childhood Obesity Can Be Predicted at Birth

 
More on a simple formula ONE PLOS Open Access Journal published a study in a child's chances of being obese in childhood can predict.
Formula, which is available as an online calculator, child obesity her birth weight, parental body mass index, based on the number of people at risk is estimated, mother's occupational status and whether they smoked during pregnancy.
Early childhood obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart and circulatory disease is a major cause, and is becoming more common in developed countries. According to NHS statistics, 17 per cent of the boys and two girls aged 15 in England, 15% are classified as obese.
Researchers followed 4,000 children born in Finland in 1986 using data from a study prepared formula. He initially investigated whether profiles using genetic obesity risk assessment can, but tests based on the common genetic variation have failed to predict accurately. Instead, they found that non-genetic information readily available at the time of birth was enough to predict which children will become obese. In the Finnish cohort formula proved valid, but study in Italy and the United States using data from tests
He said: "It takes very little examination, lab tests do not need it and it does not cost anything," Professor Philippe Froguel of Imperial College London, said the study led by public health of the school.
About 20 per cent of children most at risk, 80 percent of obese children is predicted. The researchers suggest that services such as dieticians and psychologists high-risk families with children can be introduced to assist in the prevention of excessive weight.
Professor Froguel said: "This is roughly once a small child, it is difficult for them to lose weight, then the best strategy is prevention, and as soon as possible as it is to start, ".may be. '
In order DNA testing for mutations in the price of technology falls Doctors may be available in the next few years.
Harvard University in the United States and Verona, Italy's University, Imperial researchers Oulu, Finland in collaboration with university colleagues have studied. Work in the Medical Research Council, Imperial College London, Oulu University NATIONAL DE LA Recherche Scientifique and the Centre was funded by.