Childhood Obesity Risk Assessment Longitudinal Study

Summary

Childhood obesity is a major public health problem worldwide. Europe has a high prevalence of obesity, which is accentuated in Mediterranean countries. Spain has a high prevalence of both overweight (percentage: 21.5 in boys and 22.2 in girls) and obesity (percentage: 10.6 in boys and 11.8 in girls) in children aged 6-9 years.

From childhood, obesity is associated with an increased risk of diseases such as insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, metabolic syndrome, musculoskeletal problems, sleep disorders and mental health problems. Obesity is a complex, multi-causal problem involving individual risk factors such as behavior and genetics. Behavioral factors include diet, physical activity, sedentary lifestyle, sleep, and others. It is therefore important to study each of the individual risk factors for obesity. There are few large sample studies in European/Spanish children and no longitudinal studies estimating the incidence of obesity in preschool children based on exposure to different risk factors, considering not only the effect of food consumption but also dietary habits and patterns.

The aim of the present study is to identify risk factors for childhood obesity through long-term longitudinal follow-up.

Conditions

• Child Obesity

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Instituto de Salud Carlos III

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Maimónides Biomedical Research Institute of Córdoba

  collaborator OTHER

• Universidad de Córdoba

  collaborator OTHER

• Institut Investigacio Sanitaria Pere Virgili

  collaborator OTHER

• University Rovira i Virgili

  collaborator OTHER

• Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN)

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Universidad de Zaragoza

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Valencia

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Navarra

  collaborator OTHER

• Hospital Clinico Universitario de Santiago

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Santiago de Compostela

  collaborator OTHER

• Health Research Institute of Santiago

  collaborator OTHER

• Hospital del Mar Research Institute (IMIM)

  collaborator OTHER

• Hospital Universitario Reina Sofia de Cordoba

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Universidad de Granada

  collaborator OTHER

• Biosanitary Research Institute of Granada

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Consorcio Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red (CIBER)

  lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

• Mercedes Gil · Universidad de Córdoba

• Nancy E Babio · University Rovira i Virgili

Eligibility

Min Age

3 Years

Max Age

6 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2019-05-27

Primary Completion

2032-07-14

Completion

2032-07-14

Countries

• Spain

Study Locations