Bmc Public Health
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Review Meta Analysis
Childhood obesity and adult cardiovascular disease risk factors: a systematic review with meta-analysis.
Overweight and obesity is a major public health concern that includes associations with the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors during childhood and adolescence as well as premature mortality in adults. Despite the high prevalence of childhood and adolescent obesity as well as adult CVD, individual studies as well as previous systematic reviews examining the relationship between childhood obesity and adult CVD have yielded conflicting results. The purpose of this study was to use the aggregate data meta-analytic approach to address this gap. ⋯ PROSPERO 2015: CRD42015019763 .
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Review Meta Analysis
Childhood obesity and adult cardiovascular disease risk factors: a systematic review with meta-analysis.
Overweight and obesity is a major public health concern that includes associations with the development of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors during childhood and adolescence as well as premature mortality in adults. Despite the high prevalence of childhood and adolescent obesity as well as adult CVD, individual studies as well as previous systematic reviews examining the relationship between childhood obesity and adult CVD have yielded conflicting results. The purpose of this study was to use the aggregate data meta-analytic approach to address this gap. ⋯ PROSPERO 2015: CRD42015019763 .