Childhood Obesity in the Developing and Underdeveloped Countries

Risk of Childhood Obesity from Parental Obesity
Introduction
Childhood obesity is a greater public health concern globally. The prevalence of obesity
among children has spiralled greatly in the developed and affluent countries. Studies
conducted recently have shown that the problem is percolating in the developing and under
developed countries. Based on review studies an estimate of 50-80% of obese are likely to be
obese through to the adulthood. Obesity has been shown to be risk factors for various
diseases such as hypertension, cardiovascular, diabetes and many other diseases. Obesity
tends to be associated with genetic make up of individuals. Genes have been taunted as
responsible for obesity related conditions among families. There has been attributable
association of childhood overweight and adult hood obesity being linked to parental obesity
(Llewellyn et al., 2016 ).
PICOT question
The risk of childhood obesity from parental obesity during the young adulthood years
Methodology
The search strategy used utilised key words in order to narrow down on the area of
interest. Key words used included, ‘risk’ , ‘childhood obesity’ ad ‘parental obesity’. CINHAL
database was used to reviewed related studies. The search method filtered and reviewed 6
studies both quantitative and qualitative for this study.
Literature Review
Studies on the relationship between body mass of children and parents have been
investigated. In a study by Bahreynian et al., (2017), in a cross sectional study among 6-18
year old youngsters together with their parents in Iran, showed that there was significant
association between parental overweight and children BMI status.

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Bahreynian, M., Qorbani, M., Khaniabadi, B. M., Motlagh, M. E., Safari, O.,
Asayesh, H., & Kelishadi, R. (2017). Association between obesity and parental
weight status in children and adolescents. Journal of clinical research in pediatric
endocrinology, 9(2), 111.