Mobile, Ala. (December 14, 2007)
Contact: Amanda MacDonald, (251) 470-168 |
 USA Physician Publishes Research on Childhood
Obesity
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Dr. Daniel L. Preud'homme |
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Dr. Daniel L. Preud'homme, an associate professor of gastroenterology at the University of South Alabama, was recently published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine for his research related to childhood obesity.
The article titled "Television Viewing and Hypertension in Obese Children," published by Preud'homme, along with several other researchers, determined that television viewing is linked to childhood obesity, as well as hypertension in children.
Cardiovascular risk factors have been known to be increased by obesity and recent studies have shown that these cardiovascular risk factors that appear in childhood are considerable predictors of preclinical atherosclerosis in adulthood. |
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The study shows that children who watch 2 to 4 hours of television a day had 2.5 times the odds of hypertension compared with children who watched less than 2 hours of television a day. Children who watched more than 4 hours of television were 3.3 times greater than children who watched less than 2 hours of television a day.
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Dr. Preud'homme says, "We now realize many diseases such as cardiovascular disease begin early in life especially in overweight children. This underscores the need to aggressively treat obesity in children in order to improve their quality of life."
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This article can be found in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Vol. 33, Issue 6 (December 2007) published by Elsevier.
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