William H Dietz
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4454292 |
|---|---|
| NOME | William H Dietz |
| PRENOMES | William H |
| SOBRENOME | Dietz |
| ASSINATURA | DIETZ W H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6972-0925 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
How School Meals Can Help Change the Climate
The authors declare no conflicts of interest
Behavioral interventions—past, present, and future
Food Insecurity Screening and Referral Practices of Pediatric Clinicians in Metropolitan Washington, DC
Immediately after the release of the AAP Policy Statement, it was found that few pediatric clinicians appropriately and frequently screened for FI in our regional sample. Our data emphasize the common misconceptions held by clinicians around FI and the necessity to incorporate training that underscores the invisibility of FI along with effective techniques to screen and intervene
Where Was Climate Change at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health
Beyond taste and easy access
The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change
A New Framework for Addressing Adverse Childhood and Community Experiences
Obesity and Severe Obesity Forecasts Through 2030
The relation of BMI and skinfold thicknesses to risk factors among young and middle-aged adults
BMI appears to be at least as accurate as skinfold thicknesses in identifying metabolic risk among adults. The advantages of BMI should be considered in the design and interpretation of clinical and epidemiologic studies
Annual Medical Spending Attributable To Obesity: Payer-And Service-Specific Estimates
In 1998 the medical costs of obesity were estimated to be as high as $78.5 billion, with roughly half financed by Medicare and Medicaid. This analysis presents updated estimates of the costs of obesity for the United States across payers (Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers), in separate categories for inpatient, non-inpatient, and prescription drug spending. We found that the increased prevalence of obesity is responsible for almost $40 bil…
Physical Education and Academic Achievement in Elementary School
Objectives. We examined the association between time spent in physical education and academic achievement in a longitudinal study of students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Methods. We used data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998 to 1999, which employed a multistage probability design to select a nationally representative sample of students in kindergarten (analytic sample = 5316). Time spent in physical…
What Can We Do to Control Childhood Obesity
children; obesity; interventions; environment; social movement
Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Excess Adiposity Among Overweight Children and Adolescents
The prediction of body fatness by BMI and skinfold thicknesses among children and adolescents
Although skinfold thicknesses, when used in addition to BMI-for-age, can substantially improve the estimation of body fatness, the improvement among overweight children is small
Canada en mouvement
The Relation of Childhood BMI to Adult Adiposity
Objective. Although many studies have found that childhood levels of body mass index (BMI; kg/m2) are associated with adult levels, it has been reported that childhood BMI is not associated with adult adiposity. We further examined these longitudinal associations. Design. Cohort study based on examinations between 1973 and 1996. Setting. Bogalusa, Louisiana. Participants. Children (2610; ages 2-17 years old) who were followed to ages 18 to 37 yea…
Prevalence of Obesity, Diabetes, and Obesity-Related Health Risk Factors, 2001
CONTEXT: Obesity and diabetes are increasing in the United States. OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of obesity and diabetes among US adults in 2001. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Random-digit telephone survey of 195 005 adults aged 18 years or older residing in all states participating in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System in 2001. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Body mass index, based on self-reported weight and height and self-repo…
Prevalence of a Metabolic Syndrome Phenotype in Adolescents
BACKGROUND: In adults the metabolic syndrome imposes a substantial risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus and premature coronary heart disease. Even so, no national estimate is currently available of the prevalence of this syndrome in adolescents. OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence and distribution of a metabolic syndrome among adolescents in the United States. DESIGN AND SETTING: Analyses of cross-sectional data obtained from the Third National He…
Validity of body mass index compared with other body-composition screening indexes for the assessment of body fatness in children and adolescents
Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome Among US Adults
CONTEXT: The Third Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (ATP III) highlights the importance of treating patients with the metabolic syndrome to prevent cardiovascular disease. Limited information is available about the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in the United States, however. OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of the metabolic syn…
Relationship of Childhood Obesity to Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors in Adulthood
BACKGROUND: Childhood obesity is related to adult levels of lipids, lipoproteins, blood pressure, and insulin and to morbidity from coronary heart disease (CHD). However, the importance of the age at which obesity develops in these associations remains uncertain. OBJECTIVE AND DESIGN: We assessed the longitudinal relationship of childhood body mass index (BMI, kg/m(2)) to adult levels of lipids, insulin, and blood pressure among 2617 participants…
Impact of Overweight on the Risk of Developing Common Chronic Diseases During a 10-Year Period
BACKGROUND: Overweight adults are at an increased risk of developing numerous chronic diseases. METHODS: Ten-year follow-up (1986-1996) of middle-aged women in the Nurses' Health Study and men in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study to assess the health risks associated with overweight. RESULTS: The risk of developing diabetes, gallstones, hypertension, heart disease, and stroke increased with severity of overweight among both women and men. …
Preventing Obesity in Children and Adolescents
In this review, we address the natural history of obesity in children, the most promising family- and school-based approaches to the prevention of obesity, and the barriers and opportunities associated with secondary prevention. In childhood, the most important periods of risk appear to be the periods of adiposity rebound and adolescence. Caution regarding the period of adiposity rebound is still warranted, because it is not yet clear that early …
The Relation of Overweight to Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among Children and Adolescents
BACKGROUND: Although overweight and obesity in childhood are related to dyslipidemia, hyperinsulinemia, and hypertension, most studies have examined levels of these risk factors individually or have used internal cutpoints (eg, quintiles) to classify overweight and risk factors. OBJECTIVE: We used cutpoints derived from several national studies to examine the relation of overweight (Quetelet index, >95th percentile) to adverse risk factor levels …
Health Consequences of Obesity in Youth
Obesity now affects one in five children in the United States. Discrimination against overweight children begins early in childhood and becomes progressively institutionalized. Because obese children tend to be taller than their nonoverweight peers, they are apt to be viewed as more mature. The inappropriate expectations that result may have an adverse effect on their socialization. Many of the cardiovascular consequences that characterize adult-…
Nutritional status of Efe pygmies and Lese horticulturists
We assessed the nutritional status of 90 pygmies (Efe) and 211 members of a neighboring horticultural Lese in the Ituri forest in northeast Zaire. Clinical signs of iron and iodine deficiency were highly prevalent, but the frequency of these and other clinical signs of nutritional deficiency did not differ between the two groups. Infectious diseases such as yaws, cellulitis, and filiariasis were common. Absolute heights and weights of both Efe ma…
The Impact of Television Viewing on Mental Aptitude and Achievement
Journal Article THE IMPACT OF TELEVISION VIEWING ON MENTAL APTITUDE AND ACHIEVEMENT: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY Get access STEVEN L. GORTMAKER, STEVEN L. GORTMAKER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar CHARLES A. SALTER, CHARLES A. SALTER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DEBORAH K. WALKER, DEBORAH K. WALKER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Physical Education and Academic Achievement in Elementary School
Objectives. We examined the association between time spent in physical education and academic achievement in a longitudinal study of students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Methods. We used data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998 to 1999, which employed a multistage probability design to select a nationally representative sample of students in kindergarten (analytic sample = 5316). Time spent in physical…
What Can We Do to Control Childhood Obesity
children; obesity; interventions; environment; social movement
Beyond taste and easy access
Do We Fatten Our Children at the Television Set? Obesity and Television Viewing in Children and Adolescents
The association of television viewing and obesity in data collected during cycles II and III of the National Health Examination Survey was examined. Cycle II examined 6,965 children aged 6 to 11 years and cycle III examined 6,671 children aged 12 to 17 years. Included in the cycle III sample were 2,153 subjects previously studied during cycle II. These surveys, therefore, provided two cross-sectional samples and one prospective sample. In all thr…
Nutritional status of Efe pygmies and Lese horticulturists
We assessed the nutritional status of 90 pygmies (Efe) and 211 members of a neighboring horticultural Lese in the Ituri forest in northeast Zaire. Clinical signs of iron and iodine deficiency were highly prevalent, but the frequency of these and other clinical signs of nutritional deficiency did not differ between the two groups. Infectious diseases such as yaws, cellulitis, and filiariasis were common. Absolute heights and weights of both Efe ma…
The Impact of Television Viewing on Mental Aptitude and Achievement
Journal Article THE IMPACT OF TELEVISION VIEWING ON MENTAL APTITUDE AND ACHIEVEMENT: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY Get access STEVEN L. GORTMAKER, STEVEN L. GORTMAKER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar CHARLES A. SALTER, CHARLES A. SALTER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar DEBORAH K. WALKER, DEBORAH K. WALKER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Long-Term Morbidity and Mortality of Overweight Adolescents
BACKGROUND: Overweight in adults is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. In contrast, the long-term effect of overweight in adolescence on morbidity and mortality is not known. METHODS: We studied the relation between overweight and morbidity and mortality in 508 lean or overweight adolescents 13 to 18 years old who participated in the Harvard Growth Study of 1922 to 1935. Overweight adolescents were defined as those with a body-mas…
Social and Economic Consequences of Overweight in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
BACKGROUND AND METHODS: Overweight in adolescents may have deleterious effects on their subsequent self-esteem, social and economic characteristics, and physical health. We studied the relation between overweight and subsequent educational attainment, marital status, household income, and self-esteem in a nationally representative sample of 10,039 randomly selected young people who were 16 to 24 years old in 1981. Follow-up data were obtained in …
Predicting Obesity in Young Adulthood from Childhood and Parental Obesity
Background Childhood obesity increases the risk of obesity in adulthood, but how parental obesity affects the chances of a child's becoming an obese adult is unknown. We investigated the risk of obesity in young adulthood associated with both obesity in childhood and obesity in one or both parents.
Health Consequences of Obesity in Youth
Obesity now affects one in five children in the United States. Discrimination against overweight children begins early in childhood and becomes progressively institutionalized. Because obese children tend to be taller than their nonoverweight peers, they are apt to be viewed as more mature. The inappropriate expectations that result may have an adverse effect on their socialization. Many of the cardiovascular consequences that characterize adult-…
Obesity Evaluation and Treatment
OBJECTIVES: The development of recommendations for physicians, nurse practitioners, and nutritionists to guide the evaluation and treatment of overweight children and adolescents. METHODS: The Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration, the Department of Health and Human Services convened a committee of pediatric obesity experts to develop the recommendations. RESULTS: The Committee recommended that children wi…
The Relation of Overweight to Cardiovascular Risk Factors Among Children and Adolescents
BACKGROUND: Although overweight and obesity in childhood are related to dyslipidemia, hyperinsulinemia, and hypertension, most studies have examined levels of these risk factors individually or have used internal cutpoints (eg, quintiles) to classify overweight and risk factors. OBJECTIVE: We used cutpoints derived from several national studies to examine the relation of overweight (Quetelet index, >95th percentile) to adverse risk factor levels …
Relationship of Childhood Obesity to Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors in Adulthood
BACKGROUND: Childhood obesity is related to adult levels of lipids, lipoproteins, blood pressure, and insulin and to morbidity from coronary heart disease (CHD). However, the importance of the age at which obesity develops in these associations remains uncertain. OBJECTIVE AND DESIGN: We assessed the longitudinal relationship of childhood body mass index (BMI, kg/m(2)) to adult levels of lipids, insulin, and blood pressure among 2617 participants…
Impact of Overweight on the Risk of Developing Common Chronic Diseases During a 10-Year Period
BACKGROUND: Overweight adults are at an increased risk of developing numerous chronic diseases. METHODS: Ten-year follow-up (1986-1996) of middle-aged women in the Nurses' Health Study and men in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study to assess the health risks associated with overweight. RESULTS: The risk of developing diabetes, gallstones, hypertension, heart disease, and stroke increased with severity of overweight among both women and men. …
Preventing Obesity in Children and Adolescents
In this review, we address the natural history of obesity in children, the most promising family- and school-based approaches to the prevention of obesity, and the barriers and opportunities associated with secondary prevention. In childhood, the most important periods of risk appear to be the periods of adiposity rebound and adolescence. Caution regarding the period of adiposity rebound is still warranted, because it is not yet clear that early …
Validity of body mass index compared with other body-composition screening indexes for the assessment of body fatness in children and adolescents
Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome Among US Adults
CONTEXT: The Third Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (ATP III) highlights the importance of treating patients with the metabolic syndrome to prevent cardiovascular disease. Limited information is available about the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in the United States, however. OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of the metabolic syn…
Prevalence of Obesity, Diabetes, and Obesity-Related Health Risk Factors, 2001
CONTEXT: Obesity and diabetes are increasing in the United States. OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of obesity and diabetes among US adults in 2001. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Random-digit telephone survey of 195 005 adults aged 18 years or older residing in all states participating in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System in 2001. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Body mass index, based on self-reported weight and height and self-repo…
Prevalence of a Metabolic Syndrome Phenotype in Adolescents
BACKGROUND: In adults the metabolic syndrome imposes a substantial risk for type 2 diabetes mellitus and premature coronary heart disease. Even so, no national estimate is currently available of the prevalence of this syndrome in adolescents. OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence and distribution of a metabolic syndrome among adolescents in the United States. DESIGN AND SETTING: Analyses of cross-sectional data obtained from the Third National He…
The Relation of Childhood BMI to Adult Adiposity
Objective. Although many studies have found that childhood levels of body mass index (BMI; kg/m2) are associated with adult levels, it has been reported that childhood BMI is not associated with adult adiposity. We further examined these longitudinal associations. Design. Cohort study based on examinations between 1973 and 1996. Setting. Bogalusa, Louisiana. Participants. Children (2610; ages 2-17 years old) who were followed to ages 18 to 37 yea…
Canada en mouvement
Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Excess Adiposity Among Overweight Children and Adolescents
The prediction of body fatness by BMI and skinfold thicknesses among children and adolescents
Although skinfold thicknesses, when used in addition to BMI-for-age, can substantially improve the estimation of body fatness, the improvement among overweight children is small
Physical Education and Academic Achievement in Elementary School
Objectives. We examined the association between time spent in physical education and academic achievement in a longitudinal study of students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Methods. We used data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998 to 1999, which employed a multistage probability design to select a nationally representative sample of students in kindergarten (analytic sample = 5316). Time spent in physical…
What Can We Do to Control Childhood Obesity
children; obesity; interventions; environment; social movement
Annual Medical Spending Attributable To Obesity: Payer-And Service-Specific Estimates
In 1998 the medical costs of obesity were estimated to be as high as $78.5 billion, with roughly half financed by Medicare and Medicaid. This analysis presents updated estimates of the costs of obesity for the United States across payers (Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers), in separate categories for inpatient, non-inpatient, and prescription drug spending. We found that the increased prevalence of obesity is responsible for almost $40 bil…
The relation of BMI and skinfold thicknesses to risk factors among young and middle-aged adults
BMI appears to be at least as accurate as skinfold thicknesses in identifying metabolic risk among adults. The advantages of BMI should be considered in the design and interpretation of clinical and epidemiologic studies
Obesity and Severe Obesity Forecasts Through 2030
Medicine (30 obras) · Obesity (22 obras) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (21 obras) · Overweight (17 obras) · Internal Medicine (15 obras) · Body mass index (13 obras) · Environmental health (13 obras) · Demography (11 obras) · Pediatrics (10 obras) · Gerontology (9 obras)