{"id":26438,"date":"2019-10-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/15\/children-with-autism-found-to-have-higher-risk-for-obesity\/"},"modified":"2019-10-16T16:10:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T16:10:12","slug":"children-with-autism-found-to-have-higher-risk-for-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/15\/children-with-autism-found-to-have-higher-risk-for-obesity\/","title":{"rendered":"Children With Autism Found to Have Higher Risk for Obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Obesity seen in 22 percent of children with autism spectrum disorders<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, Oct. 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) appear to increase the risk for childhood obesity, according to a review published online Oct. 8 in <i>Obesity Reviews<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Chanaka N. Kahathuduwa, M.D., from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, and colleagues conducted a systematic literature review to identify studies that reported prevalence of overweight and\/or obesity in children with ASD and matched groups of neurotypical children.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers identified 35 studies that were included in the meta-analysis. The prevalence of obesity was 22.2 percent among children with ASD. There was a 41 percent greater risk for developing obesity among children with ASD. Positive moderators of the association between ASD and prevalence of overweight or obesity included non-Caucasian race, increasing age, female sex, and living in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Increased awareness of this association may allow the implementation of early interventions to reduce obesity and prevent potential deterioration of quality of life in this population,&#8221; the authors write.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/obr.12933\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Abstract\/Full Text (subscription or payment may be required)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obesity seen in 22 percent of children with autism spectrum disorders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":26454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-26438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}