Are participant characteristics from ISCOLE study sites comparable to the rest of their country?
The International Study of Childhood Obesity, Lifestyle and the Environment (ISCOLE) provides robust, multi-national information on physical activi…
Category: Epidemiology
Active school transport and weekday physical activity in 9–11-year-old children from 12 countries
Active school transport (AST) may increase the time that children spend in physical activity (PA). This study examined relationships between AST an…
Associations between breakfast frequency and adiposity indicators in children from 12 countries
Reports of inverse associations between breakfast frequency and indices of obesity are predominantly based on samples of children from high-income …
Association between home and school food environments and dietary patterns among 9–11-year-old children in 12 countries
We investigated the roles of home and school environments on dietary patterns among children from 12 countries differing widely in geographic regio…
The epidemiological transition and the global childhood obesity epidemic
Childhood obesity is now recognized as a global public health issue. Social patterning of obesity, consistent with the theory of epidemiologic tran…
Investigation of pH-dependent 1H NMR urine metabolite profiles for diagnosis of obesity-related disordering
Human urine is highly favorable for 1H NMR metabolomics analyses of obesity-related diseases, such as non-alcoholic fatty liver, type 2 …
BMI trajectory of 8,155,894 Japanese adults from exhaustive health checkup data: the contributions of age-related changes in height and weight
This study aimed to clarify the trajectory of BMI alongside age-related changes in height and weight among Japanese adults. Data from annual health…
Timing based clustering of childhood BMI trajectories reveals differential maturational patterns; Study in the Northern Finland Birth Cohorts 1966 and 1986
Children’s biological age does not always correspond to their chronological age. In the case of BMI trajectories, this can appear as phase variat…
Diurnal timing of physical activity in relation to obesity and diabetes in the German National Cohort (NAKO)
Physical activity supports weight regulation and metabolic health, but its timing in relation to obesity and diabetes remains unclear. We aimed to …
Association of novel metabolic status with asymptomatic intracranial arterial stenosis: A cross-sectional study
To investigate the association of metabolic status newly defined or obesity with asymptomatic intracranial arterial stenosis (aICAS) among populati…