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Environment and Obesity in the National Children's Study / Ambiente e obesidade no National Children's Study
Trasande, Leonardo; Cronk, Chris; Durkin, Maureen; Weiss, Marianne; Schoeller, Dale; Gall, Elizabeth; Hewitt, Jeanne; Carrel, Aaron; Landrigan, Philip; Gillman, Matthew.
Affiliation
  • Trasande, Leonardo; Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Department of Community and Preventive Medicine. New York. US
  • Cronk, Chris; Medical College of Wisconsin. US
  • Durkin, Maureen; University of Wisconsin. Department of Population Health Sciences. US
  • Weiss, Marianne; Marquette University. College of Nursing. US
  • Schoeller, Dale; University of Wisconsin. Interdepartmental Program in Nutritional Sciences. US
  • Gall, Elizabeth; University of Wisconsin. Department of Population Health Sciences. US
  • Hewitt, Jeanne; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Marine and Freshwater Biomedical Sciences Center. US
  • Carrel, Aaron; University of Wisconsin. Department of Pediatrics. US
  • Landrigan, Philip; Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Department of Community and Preventive Medicine. New York. US
  • Gillman, Matthew; Harvard Medical School. Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention. US
Ciênc. Saúde Colet. (Impr.) ; Ciênc. Saúde Colet. (Impr.);15(1): 195-210, jan. 2010. ilus, tab
Article in En | LILACS | ID: lil-538943
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ABSTRACT
We describe the approach taken by the National Children's Study (NCS) to understanding the role of environmental factors in the development of obesity. We review the literature with regard to the two core hypotheses in the NCS that relate to environmental origins of obesity and describe strategies that will be used to test each hypothesis. Although it is clear that obesity in an individual results from an imbalance between energy intake and expenditure, control of the obesity epidemic will require understanding of factors in the modern built environment and chemical exposures that may have the capacity to disrupt the link between energy intake and expenditure. Through its embrace of the life-course approach to epidemiology, the NCS will be able to study the origins of obesity from preconception through late adolescence, including factors ranging from genetic inheritance to individual behaviors to the social, built, and natural environment and chemical exposures. It will have sufficient statistical power to examine interactions among these multiple influences, including geneenvironment and geneobesity interactions. A major secondary benefit will derive from the banking of specimens for future analysis.
RESUMO
Descrevemos a abordagem do National Children's Study (NCS) para entender o papel dos fatores ambientais no desenvolvimento da obesidade. Revisamos a literatura a respeito de duas hipóteses principais no NCS que se relacionam a origens ambientais da obesidade e descrevem estratégias que serão utilizadas para testar cada hipótese. Apesar de estar claro que a obesidade em um indivíduo é resultado de um desequilíbrio entre consumo e gasto de energia, o controle da epidemia de obesidade requer o entendimento de fatores no ambiente moderno e exposições químicas que podem ter a capacidade de interromper a ligação entre o consumo e gasto de energia. Através da aceitação da abordagem do curso de vida a epidemiologia, o NCS será capaz de estudar as origens da obesidade da preconcepção ao final da adolescência, incluindo fatores que vão da herança genética a comportamentos individuais, passando pelo ambiente social, construído e natural e exposições químicas. O estudo terá poder estatístico suficiente para examinar as interações entre essas influências múltiplas, incluindo interações entre gene-ambiente e gene-obesidade. Um benefício secundário importante será derivado do banco de espécime para análise futura.
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Full text: 1 Index: LILACS Main subject: Exercise / Child Health / Life Style / Obesity Language: En Journal: Ciênc. Saúde Colet. (Impr.) Journal subject: SAUDE PUBLICA Year: 2010 Type: Article / Project document
Full text: 1 Index: LILACS Main subject: Exercise / Child Health / Life Style / Obesity Language: En Journal: Ciênc. Saúde Colet. (Impr.) Journal subject: SAUDE PUBLICA Year: 2010 Type: Article / Project document