[Childhood overweight and obesity: A biomedical challenge in Mexico].
| Autor: | Vázquez-Moreno MA; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, Hospital de Especialidades 'Dr. Bernardo Sepúlveda Gutiérrez', Unidad de Investigación Médica en Bioquímica. Ciudad de México, México., Cruz-López M; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, Hospital de Especialidades 'Dr. Bernardo Sepúlveda Gutiérrez', Unidad de Investigación Médica en Bioquímica. Ciudad de México, México. |
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| Jazyk: | Spanish; Castilian |
| Zdroj: | Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social [Rev Med Inst Mex Seguro Soc] 2024 Jan 08; Vol. 62 (1), pp. 1-3. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jan 08. |
| DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.10278077 |
| Abstrakt: | In Mexico, 1 out of 3 schoolchildren aged 5 to 11 years is overweight or obese, which represents one of the main public health concerns, due to the fact that this condition in the child population is highly associated with the development of metabolic complications in adults. To date, dietary and physical activity interventions to prevent this problem have shown modest results worldwide. Biomedical studies in Mexico have shown that the pathophysiology of childhood overweight and obesity presents different molecular patterns, inflammation and oxidative stress, possibly associated with specific variants in the genome. However, the challenge is to achieve a secure characterization of this evidence so that it can be used in intervention studies aimed to improve the ability to predict and treat childhood overweight and obesity in Mexico. The biomedical challenge is to make knowledge a prevention strategy in families, in society and in the country, in order to fight the serious problem of obesity and its consequences. (Licencia CC 4.0 (BY-NC-ND) © 2024 Revista Médica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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